[6] Design for a screen wall and gateway, c1770-76, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Portland House, New Cavendish Street, London: unexecuted designs for a house, a gateway, and a chimneypiece for the 3rd Duke of Portland, c1770-76 (8)
      - Preliminary design and design for a screen wall and gateway, c1770-76, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/6

Purpose

[6] Design for a screen wall and gateway, c1770-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a screen and gateway as Adam volume 51/98, but with doors in the curved screen walls, with additional ornamentation, and with walls on the far sides of the pavilions, and with pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Gateway for Portland House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1770-1776
date range: 1770-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (937 x 358)

Hand

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

Verso

This is to be placed Second / Duke of Portland / 5 / 2 (in pencil)

Watermark

IVG and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche / IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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