[20] Design for a garden building, 1779, not known to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
    - Designs and record drawings for a garden building, 1778-1779, not known to have been executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/169

Purpose

[20] Design for a garden building, 1779, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a single-story, balustraded building, with a central projecting pedimented entrance. The pediment is supported by Ionic pilasters, and the stepped entrance has a volute cornice, with a frieze ornamented with a roundel flanked by swags. Above this there is a figurative tablet. The central projecting bay is flanked by half-bays with Ionic pilasters and niches containing urns with medallions set above, and the building has a frieze of rosettes and fluting

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 5 feet

Inscribed

Back front of the Garden Building

Signed and dated

Jan 1779
7th Janry 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (378 x 349)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

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

Notes

This drawing is incorrectly inscribed, as it clearly shows the principal elevation, not the rear.

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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