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[12] Finished drawing for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 39/86
Purpose
[12] Finished drawing for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal (west) front of a three-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped roof, rusticated basement, and a three-bay entrance loggia supporting a portico and pediment. To either side (north and south) is a one-storey, three-bay, rusticated, balustraded link, and a one-storey, pedimented pavilion, containing a Venetian window within a relieving arch, and ornamented with paired Corinthian pilasters, and figurative sculptures supported by acroteria
Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
1st Design for the Earl of Grosvenor (in the hand of William Adam) and some feint pencil inscriptions
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (539 x 308)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
LVG and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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