[120] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Additions to the park
      - Finished drawings for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/100

Purpose

[120] Finished drawing for an orangery greenhouse, c1767-80, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, nine-bay greenhouse, with the central seven bays behind a screen of columns, and accessed by four steps, and the end bays are slightly recessed, contain niches, and have steps to the side. There is a flue inset into the back and side walls of the central seven bays of the building

Scale

bar scale of 2 2/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of a Greenhouse for Osterley Park / 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 (632 x 468)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably William Hamilton, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

2 / Francis Child Esqr

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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