[2] Finished drawing for the house, c1763-5, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire: designs for the house and park, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66 (28)
    - Designs for the house
      - Finished drawings for the house, c1763-5, unexecuted (3)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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