[10] Working drawing for the west front for a house, c1787

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [10] Working drawing for the west front for a house, c1787

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Brighton
    - The Steine, Brighton, Sussex, presentation and working drawings for a house, for Mrs Maria Fitzherbert, c1787 (10)
      - Alternative preliminary design and a set of working drawings for the design for a house, c1787 (7)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/22

Purpose

[10] Working drawing for the west front for a house, c1787

Aspect

Elevation of the west front of a five-bay building, with a hipped roof. There is a central tripartite door, articulated by Doric pilasters, surmounted by a frieze of festoons and rosettes, and a lunette. This is flanked by two-bay, single-storey loggias with pyramidal roofs, and the loggias are ornamented with bands of pebbles, a characteristic form of Brighton rustication.

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

West front towards the Street of a house for Mrs Fitzherbert at Brighton and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1787
c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen on sugar paper (496 x 311)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p.5
Miele, 1998, p.167
King, 2001, p.122
McKean (ed.), 2017, p.9
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