[9] Working drawing for the east front of a house, c1787

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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)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/21

Purpose

[9] Working drawing for the east front of a house, c1787

Aspect

Elevation of the east front of a five-bay, two-storey house, with a pitched roof. The central three bays comprise a two-storey bow front, surmounted by a dome, and with an ornamental ironwork balustrade at first floor. At ground floor there are arched windows, shown in alternative designs. Beyond the end bays there are paired pilasters, and above there is a frieze of fluting and ox skulls

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

East Front towards the Stein of a house for Mrs Fitzherbert at Brighton and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1787
c1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen on sugar paper (584 x 484)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

1 / Mrs Fitzherbert's house at Brighton / 2 Elevations 2 ground Plans 1 Section & a Roof Plan / from no. 13

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p.5
Miele, 1998, p.167
King, 2001, p.122
McKean (ed.), 2017, pp.7-8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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