[7] Finished drawing for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted

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  - Fennells Place, Ewell, Surrey: unexecuted designs for a house, interior works, and rustic offices, for Anthony Chamier, 1765-74 (14)
    - Preliminary design and finished drawings for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/98

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the half-sunk basement of the central block of a house, being five bays on the garden front, and four bays on the principal front, with the central two bays slightly projecting, and containing service and domestic rooms, and being flanked by the footprint of ground-storey quadrant links and pavilions

Scale

bar sale of 7/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Ground Story of a house for Anthony Chamier Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Butlers Bed room / Plate room / Butlers Pantry / wine / wine Vaults / Stewards Eating room or Still room / Housekeepers Bedroom / Store room / Small Beer / Servants Hall and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1765-1774
date range: 1765-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (532 x 364)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3 / 1 / 3 / 1

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 125
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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