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[2] Preliminary design for the addition of service wings to the house, 1775-77, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/6
Purpose
[2] Preliminary design for the addition of service wings to the house, 1775-77, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a kitchen wing, with a five-bay principal front, with tripartite windows in the central and projecting end bays, and a circular window behind the central window, and with three-bay canted bows on each side, and with a courtyard behind, enclosed in links which presumably connect with the house
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Lord Frederick Campbell at Coombank (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Kitchen and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1775-1777
date range: 1775-77
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (434 x 293)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, addition to inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
6 / Number 1 (in red pen) / Lord F Campbell Coombank
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Every Look Speaks': Portraits of David Garrick, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 16 September - 9 December 2003
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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