[14] Finished drawing for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

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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)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/106

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for a D-shaped house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 34/25

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Unknown (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1779
datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (239 x 152)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p.126
Rowan, 2003, p. 46
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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