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[15] Design for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted
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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.
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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