[7] Design for the kitchen office front for a house, possibly executed, c1786

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Conduit Street, London, (unknown number), designs for a house, offices, and a garden porch, for Sir John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, possibly executed, c1786 (11)
      - Designs for a house, possibly executed, c1786 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/94

Purpose

[7] Design for the kitchen office front for a house, possibly executed, c1786

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, four-bay building, with a balustraded, pitched roof. On the ground floor there is a tripartite window set behind a Doric colonnade, and this is flanked by lancet windows. On the first floor there is a window articulated by tapering pilasters surmounted by herms, which stylistically forms part of an internal court along with the first-storey colonnade apparent in Adam volume 35/95. Above this, there is a figurative half-roundel is set within a fan. In the upper register there are tripartite, half-height windows, with an ornamental tablet above. All this is surmounted by a plinth supporting a sphinx. To the right of all this there is a section of a two-storey link passage

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Front of the offices Delevals house in Conduit Street (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow on laid paper (279 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

2 (?)

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 423
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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