[2] Design for an entrance lodge, c1770-73, unexecuted

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  - Mitcham Grove, Surrey: unexecuted designs for buildings in the park, domestic offices, and a mirror frame for John Stewart, and unexecuted designs for alterations to the house for Alexander Wedderburn, c1770-74 (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/27

Purpose

[2] Design for an entrance lodge, c1770-73, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation, within a landscape, of a two-storey, three-bay, domed, circular building, flanked by one-storey, one-bay links, one-storey octagonal pavilions, and to the left is a segmental arched gateway, surmounted by a broken-base pediment, and to the right is a corresponding arch, but it is blind and contains a window, and the whole is flanked by a wooden fence

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

for John Stewart Esqr (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

c1770-73
date range: c1770-73

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (541 x 380)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 233
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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