[10] Design for 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)
    - Designs and finished drawing for additions and alterations to an older house, c1775, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/57

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay house, with a hipped roof, and the two end bays projecting and surmounted by a pediment, and with a five-bay colonnade across the central portion of the ground storey, with the central three bays forming a bow, and this colonnade is balustraded across the top, forming a balcony to the storey above

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Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

3d Design (in the hand of William Adam) / Elevation of the principal front of the House for Isaac Wilkinson Esqr / towards the Great Road Baldock (verso) 1

Signed and dated

c1775
datable to c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (538 x 380)

Hand

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

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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