[8] Design for a longitudinal section through 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 35/95

Purpose

[8] Design for a longitudinal section through a house, possibly executed, c1786

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a three-and-a-half-storey building, with a double pitched roof, and stepped entrance. The staircase is positioned centre, set within an oval compartment, with a conical oculus forming the light-well above. The basement level extends beyond the front and rear of the building. The wall treatments for the rear rooms at both ground storey and first storey contain Doric pilasters. Beyond the building there is a two-storey link structure, with a Doric colonnade at ground storey, and with tapered pilasters surmounted by herms at first storey. This links to a three-storey building to the rear of the house, with a double pitched roof, and stepped access to the basement level

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House & Offices of Lord Delavals house in Conduit Street (underwritten in pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow (470 x 294)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

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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