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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/8

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of the side of a two-storey seven-bay house, with a hipped roof, a fluted frieze, and with the two end bays projecting, and articulated by Corinthian pilasters, and in between in a three-bay bow in the ground storey, behind a portico of paired Ionic columns, surmounted by a balustrade

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

West Front of Gunton house in Norfolk the Seat of / Sir Harbord Harbord Baronet (all in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768-72
    datable to c1768-72

Medium and dimensions

Pen within a double ruled border on laid paper (596 x 424)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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