[6] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Bicton House, East Budleigh, Devon: unexecuted designs for a house and a gatehouse for John Rolle Walter, 1772 (7)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a house, 1772, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/56

Purpose

[6] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the east (inside the rear U-shaped court) of the kitchen wing (the left-hand wing on Adam volume 43/57-43/58), showing a one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay link, with a pitched roof, and balustraded half-height windows in the upper register, flanked by two-storey, two-bay projecting wings, also with pitched roofs, and the left-hand wing has a single-storey, single-bay pitched roofed link shown in section

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

East Front of the Kitchen Offices. for John Role Walter Esqr / in Devonshire (for John Role Walter / in Devonshire in the hand of William Adam) / Window and some measurements given

Signed and dated

March 1772
Adelphi March 27th. 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (541 x 382)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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