[2] Alternative design for the house, c1786, partly executed

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [2] Alternative design for the house, c1786, partly executed

Browse

Books

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Claremont Park, (Milburn house), Esher, Surrey, part executed plans, elevations and a section for the house, and elevations for a temple and a bridge (unexecuted), for John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, c1786 (11)
    - Alternative designs for the house, and designs for the east and west front, c1786, partly executed (4)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/105

Purpose

[2] Alternative design for the house, c1786, partly executed

Aspect

Above - Elevation of a two-and-a-half storey, three-bay house as Adam volume 34/104. This is flanked by single-storey, single-bay link buildings, with niches containing urns. Beyond this there are projecting one-and-a-half-storey pavilions, each surmounted by a weather vane, and with a central pedimented window, set behind a Doric screen. This is surmounted by a tripartite, half-height window in the upper register. The pavilions are flanked by single bays, each with a niche containing urns

Below - Plan of a three-by-one-bay house, as Adam volume 34/104. This is flanked by adjoining wings. The wing to the east contains a drawing room formed from a central square space with corner niches, and with windows facing to the north and south. The wing to the west contains a central, square bedchamber, with windows facing to north and south. This is flanked by rectangular spaces, containing a staircase and water closet to the east of the bedchamber, and a dressing room and closet to the west

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lord Delavals House in the Country (in the hand of William Adam) / 106 (pencil, modern curatorial hand) / Drawing room center part 20 ft whole length 40 ft / Anti room / Breakfast room / Eating room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Closet

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (490 x 259)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 139
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).