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[6] Design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 40/61
Purpose
[6] Design for a new house, 1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the garden front of a house, with a three-storey, thirteen-bay central block, with a hipped roof, and a rusticated ground storey, and with a projecting seven-bay arcaded bow across the central five bays of the ground storey, and supporting a bowed portico, and a conical roof, and the end bays are slightly projecting, articulated by pilasters or engaged columns, and with Venetian windows on the first storey, and the end bays have an additional attic storey containing a rectangular moulded panel, and to either side of the central block can be see a three-storey, three-bay, balustraded projecting bow, and the central block is flanked by links and pavilions although this is only shown on the left-hand side, where there is a single-storey, three-bay, rusticated link, connecting to a two-storey, nine-bay wing, with a hipped roof, and a rusticated ground storey, with the central three, and end bays slightly projecting, and with the central door and windows in these projecting bays within relieving arches
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of Winnstay 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 (2184 x 493)
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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