[6] Finished drawing for the stables, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - 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 42/50

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the stables, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the stables facing the house, showing a two-storey, eight-bay building, with a hipped roof, and a two-storey pitched-roofed link across the two left-hand bays, shown in section, with a barrel vault in the first-storey rooms, and the other bays are half height on the first storey, and containing either doors or urn-filled niches within an arcade of relieving arches on the ground storey, and the one-storey garden wall is shown in section attached to the right-hand end of the building, and ornamented with niches

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front facing the House of Stable Offices in Soho Square / for Mr Baron Grant (all in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1771
datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow wash on laid paper (514 x 381)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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