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  • image SM Adam volume 32/65

Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/65

Purpose

Finished drawing for a greenhouse, c1758-63, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay greenhouse covered with a pediment, surmounted by figurative acroteria. The three bays are screened by Ionic columns, glazed, and with a Palladian opening in the central bay

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Green House executed at General Blands and to be done at Sir Walter Curzons / (and on a separate piece of sugar paper) Elevation of a Green House for General Blands House at Thistleworth

Signed and dated

  • 1758-1763
    date range: 1758-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (522 x 370)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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