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  • image SM Adam volume 29/95

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/95

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing showing an elevation of the garden front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 1/110

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of part of House and Offices at Shaw Park / If the Tower A can be lowered according / to this Drawing it will be much better (verso) 4 / 4

Signed and dated

  • 08/07/1775
    Adelphi 8th. July 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (469 x 338)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000

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