[10] Design showing an elevation of the principal front for the second scheme, c1777, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - The Oaks, Carshalton, Surrey: designs for alterations to the house for the 12th Earl of Derby, c1777 (24)
    - 2nd scheme for the house, 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.

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

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