[15] Design for a door for the hall, as executed, 1761

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/107

Purpose

[15] Design for a door for the hall, as executed, 1761

Aspect

Elevation of a door, with an architrave composed of fluted Roman Doric columns, and a Doric entablature (verso) pencil-drawn circular sketch

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For William Drake Esqr Buckinghamshire (in the hand of William Adam) / Wm Drake Esqr Buckingham Shire (in pencil) and further feint, illegible pencil inscriptions

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (360 x 514)

Hand

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

Watermark

LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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