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[2] Finished drawing for the house, c1763-5, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 32/38
Purpose
[2] Finished drawing for the house, c1763-5, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a two-and-a-half-storey, eleven-bay, balustraded central block, with a rusticated ground storey with arched windows, a Corinthian portico and pediment across the central three bays, and Corinthian pilasters articulating every other bay. The central block is flanked by Ionic colonnaded quadrant links, and one-storey, five-bay, rusticated, arcaded pavilions, with paired Ionic pilasters to either side of the end bays, with a pediment containing a lunette window across the central three bays, and a dome above the end bays
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
33 (in pencil) / West Front of The Seat of Sr Lawrence Dundass Bart. Moor Park Hertfordshire / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) (1763-5) / see RA Account 1766
Signed and dated
- 1763-1765
date range: 1763-65
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1511 x 279)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson
Verso
1 / 1
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de list within crowned cartouche and IHS IVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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