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[14] Design for an orangery and a menagerie house, 1764, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/146
Purpose
[14] Design for an orangery and a menagerie house, 1764, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a menagerie house, and principal and garden front elevations of an orangery. The orangery is a one-storey building, five bays wide on the principal front, with a pitched roof, urn-filled niches within relieving arches in the end bays, and the central three bays glazed and behind an Ionic portico supporting a pediment. The garden front is three bays wide, with windows within reliving arches in the end bays, and a central door within a reliving arch behind a portico of paired Ionic columns supporting a pediment. The menagerie house is a one-storey, H-shaped building, with an octagonal, colonnaded, and domed central block, flanked on either side by a three-bay link wall, containing arched windows, and set behind a Doric colonnade, and one- by three-bay pedimented pavilions, each with a rectangular window within a relieving arch on the principal front
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Front of the Orangerie / Front towards the Flower Garden / Plan of the Menagerie &c. / Temple and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1764
datable to c1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (506 x 577)
Hand
Adam office hand: possibly George Richardson
Watermark
D&CB LAUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 191, 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 191, 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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