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[4] Finished drawing for the house, 1771, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/49
Purpose
[4] Finished drawing for the house, 1771, unexecuted
Aspect
Alternative elevation of the principal front of a four-storey, seven-bay house, set over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof containing dormer windows, and with keystones over the windows in the ground, first and second storeys, and quoins down each side of the building, and string courses between the ground, first and second storeys, and with a door surmounted by a fanlight in the right-hand ground-storey bay, flanked by Doric columns supporting a broken base pediment
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Mr Baron Grants House Soho Square (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / (and in pencil in the hand of Robert Adam) floor / floor / floor / 5 In width of sash frames / except the 2 I wide windows / floor / [ _ _ _ ] of foot path / the 2 sash frames / in dressing room 2 1/2 / width [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / the sash frames in / the [ _ _ _ _ ] from [ _ _ _ _ _ ] to [ _ _ _ _ _ ] 4.2 3/8 except the / two in Dressing Room / which is 4.5 and some measurements and calculations given in pencil (verso) 2 and some rough calculations given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1771
datable to 1771
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (583 x 458)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam, with Pencil inscriptions in the hand of Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
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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