[15] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [15] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Great Saxham House, Suffolk: designs for alterations, rebuilding and decorating for Hutchinson Mure, 1775-9 (32)
    - Designs for a new house following the fire, 1779
      - Preliminary designs, designs, and finished drawings for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted (9)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/24

Purpose

[15] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the curved garden (south) front, of a two-and-a-half-storey, eleven-bay house, with a pitched roof surmounted by a three-bay drum and dome, and connected to projecting towers at the corners of the principal front. The fourth and eight bays are projecting and articulated by pilasters, pediments, and have a Venetian window within a relieving arch on the first storey. To either side the other bays have windows within reliving arches on the ground storey, and are recessed on the first and second storeys, with a central Venetian window within a relieving arch on the first storey, behind a screen of two columns

Scale

bar scale of 9/10 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

South front of Saxham House in Suffolk the Seat of / Hutchinson Mure Esqr (in Suffolk the Seat of / Hutchinson Mure Esqr in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / No 6

Signed and dated

March 1779
17t March 1779 / Adelphi

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (606 x 476)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

No [ _ ]

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).