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[5] Design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/60
Purpose
[5] Design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a house, with a three-storey, thirteen-bay central block, with a hipped roof, and a rusticated ground storey, and the central five bays projecting on the ground storey, with a three bay arcade flanked by half-turn stairs, and this supports a five-bay portico and pediment, and the end bays of the central block and slightly projecting, with Venetian windows within relieving arches on the first storey, and an additional attic storey containing a Diocletian window, and the central block is flanked by single-storey, eight-bay, balustraded, rusticated quadrant links, with windows and doors within relieving arches, and these connect to two-storey, eleven-bay wings with a hipped roof, and rusticated ground storeys, with the central three bays projecting, with a central door flanked by windows, each within a relieving arch, and this supports a portico of paired columns, and a pediment, and between the windows behind the portico are niches, and the end bays of the winds are also slightly projecting
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of Wynnstay House for Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (3226 x 474)
Hand
Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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