[5] Finished drawing for a conservatory, 1774, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - The Elms, Epsom, Surrey: designs for alterations to the house, and for the interior, and unexecuted designs for estate buildings, for Anthony Chamier, 1774-76 (15)
    - Designs for the park
      - Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawing for a conservatory, 1774, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/152

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a conservatory, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single-storey, five-bay, rectangular, pedimented temple, with three acroteria, and a medallion in the tympanum of the pediment, resting on a shallow stylobate, and with two steps on the principal and side fronts. The principal front has a fluted frieze, with a central tablet of festoons across three bays, and the end bays are articulated by lotus capital pilasters, with sculpture-filled niches in the end bays, and the central three bays open, with the central bay articulated by lotus capital columns, forming a screen across the opening. The interior has additional niches in the end bays of the back wall, and the end bays are screened by two columns, and with some rough pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Temple for Anthony Chamier Esqr to be Built in his Garden / at Epsom in Surrey / Plan of the Temple and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1774
1774 (in feint pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (440 x 593)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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