[8] Design for alterations to the house, c1768-72, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Gunton Park, Suffield, Norfolk: executed designs for St Andrew's Church, and unexecuted designs for the house for Sir William and Sir Harbord Harbord, 1767-72 (10)
    - Designs for alterations to the house, c1768-72, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/6

Purpose

[8] Design for alterations to the house, c1768-72, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a two-storey, seven-bay house, with a hipped roof, and a central three-bay portico of fluted columns, supporting a pediment, and flanked by Venetian windows in the ground storey, and with the end bays slightly projecting, articulated by paired fluted Corinthian pilasters, and with pediments above the windows on the ground storey (verso) pencil-drawn elevation as on recto, but with pediments over the end bays

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of the South Front of Gunton House in Norfolk / The Seat of Sir Harbord Harbord Bart (verso) 1

Signed and dated

1768-72
datable to c1768-72

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (594 x 491)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
King, 2001, Volume II, p, 126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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