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[10] Design showing an elevation of the principal front for the second scheme, c1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/17
Purpose
[10] Design showing an elevation of the principal front for the second scheme, c1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal (south) front of a castellated house, with a three-storey, central block, with the central three bays slightly recessed, and surmounted by a step-gabled pediment, and flanked by projecting three-bay towers, with the end bays composed of projecting circular towers, and with an additional mezzanine floor, and a half-height attic with cross-slit windows, and also surmounted by step gabled pediments, and this central block is flanked by half-bay links, and two-storey wings, with a central tripartite window, flanked by projecting single-bay circular towers, and with bartizans on each corner, and surmounted by four-sided step-gabled pediments, and the windows across the whole first storey of the building are arches
Scale
bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of the South front of Oaks Castle a Hunting Seat of the Earl of Derby shewing the new intended wings / proposed to be joined to the Building and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1777
datable to c1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (447 x 298)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
Rowan, 2003, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
Rowan, 2003, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk