[19] Preliminary design for a garden building, c1778, not known to have been executed

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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/114

Purpose

[19] Preliminary design for a garden building, c1778, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Upper left - Elevation of a garden building, with a portico articulated by pairs of Ionic columns, and the tympanum is ornamented with a band of Vitruvian scroll and a shield flanked by festoons. Within there is a bench. The building is surmounted by a drum and dome with an oculus, and the drum supports pedestals bearing sphinxes Below - Plan of the portico Right - Plan of the building, showing an internal, colonnaded rotunda Far right - Two alternative elevations of a garden building (pencil) with the top right elevation showing a central entrance surmounted by a tablet ornamented with a medallion. To bottom right there is an elevation showing a single-storey building with a pitched roof and an entrance portico

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / Plan to the adjoining Front / 7. feet

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (339 x 232)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 226
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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