[6] Finished drawing for a gateway, 1773, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Finished drawing for a gateway, 1773, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/105

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a gateway, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation and plan of a gateway with a pair of double wooden carriage gates to the left and right. The carriage gates are flanked by piers in the form of pilasters ornamented with festoons and rosettes and surmounted by an urn, and the wall between the gateways is ornamented with a band of rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Gateway for Apsley House for the Lord Chancellor (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

June 1773
Adelphi June 3rd 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (528 x 572)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

This to be followed (?) Twenty First (brown ink) / Lord Bathurst Plans Fronts & Sections of Apsley House / 20 / 6 /

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
King, 2005, p. 280
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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