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[121] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/99
Purpose
[121] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Elevation of a one-storey, nine-bay greenhouse, with a pitched roof, and resting on a shallow stylobate of four steps, and the central seven bays are articulated by Doric columns, are glazed, and surmounted by a pediment with a wreath and arabesques in the tympanum, and with three acroteria supporting figurative sculpture, and the end bays slightly recessed, articulated by Doric pilasters, and containing sculpture-filled niches, and the whole has a Doric frieze
Scale
bar scale of 2 2/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of a Green House for Osterley Park Middlesex / one of the Seats of Francis Child Esqr (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1767-1774
date range: 1767-74
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (654 x 493)
Hand
Adam office hand, probably William Hamilton, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
1
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 350
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 350
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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