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[2] Design showing an elevation of the principal (east or west) front for the building, 1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/38
Purpose
[2] Design showing an elevation of the principal (east or west) front for the building, 1775, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front, of a two-storey, five-bay building, with a hipped room, a rusticated ground storey, with a central, projecting arched entrance, flanked by windows and recessed arched entrances, surmounted by a central balustraded Ionic Venetian window, flanked by Ionic columns supporting a pediment, and flanked by urn-filled niches, surmounted by rectangular panels containing swags. Beyond are recessed bays containing balustraded windows, surmounted by enclosed rosettes flanked by festoons, and the profiles of the building can be see with Ionic porticoes across the first storey, surmounted by pediments
Scale
bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of a new Elevation for the two ends of the Theatre and Market place at St. Edmunds Bury shewing the projections of the new steps proposed to be joined to the sides of the / Building and not intended in the first Design (all underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 12/01/1775
Adelphi 12 Janry 1775.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a triple ruled border on laid paper (709 x 513)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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