[4] Finished drawing for the house, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Soho Square, number 20, London: designs for the house and interior for the Hon. Baron Grant, 1771-72 (27)
      - Finished drawings for the house and stables, 1771, drawings 1-3 executed with minor alterations (6)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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