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  • image SM Adam volume 37/100

Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/100

Purpose

[4] Design for kitchen offices, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey crenellated office wing with a central chimney stack; with an octagonal central block with a single-storey, single-bay square projection on every other side; and between these projecting bays the central block has a tripartite window on the ground storey and a Diocletian window above

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front of Offices for Colonel St. Paul (verso) 4 / 2 / Colonel St Paul

Signed and dated

  • 23/04/1779
    Adelphi / 23d. April 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (305 x 239)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 246
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

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