[6] Design for a additions and alterations to an older house, c1775, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Isaac Wilkinson: unexecuted house and unexecuted additions to a house on the Great North Road, Baldock, Hertfordshire, c1775 (10)
    - Design for a additions and alterations to an older house, c1775, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/56

Purpose

[6] Design for a additions and alterations to an older house, c1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedroom (first) storey of a house as Adam volume 44/55, showing the roof above the various bows, and the kitchen wing, leaving an H-shaped arrangement of bedrooms, being seven bays across the principal front, and six bays across the garden front

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

2d. Design (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Elevation of the House toward the Farm Yard / for Isaack Wilkinson Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1 / Number 13 (in brown pen)

Signed and dated

c1775
datable to c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (353 x 512)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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