[7] Finished drawing showing the elevation of the clerks’ offices towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1772-74, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Lincoln’s Inn, London: unexecuted competition designs for new buildings (later known as Stone Buildings), commissioned by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, 1771-74 (9)
    - Preliminary design and finished drawing showing the elevation of the clerks’ office towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1772-74, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 28/12

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing showing the elevation of the clerks’ offices towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1772-74, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the clerks’ office, showing a two-storey, fifteen-bay block, with a pitched roof, and a rusticated ground storey, and with the central three bays projecting, with relieving arches over the central door and windows on the ground storey, surmounted by an Ionic portico and pediment with acroterion sculptures, and rectangular figurative panels over the first-storey windows, and the central three bays are flanked by three bays with the first-storey windows surmounted by medallions, and set within relieving arches, and the end three bays are projecting, articulated by Ionic pilasters in the first storey, with a central apse containing a balustraded window, and these three projecting bays are surmounted by an attic ornamented with a tablet and oval medallions, and crowned by sculpture, and the whole has a fluted frieze

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Six Clerks Office fronting South towards the Gardens (in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given (verso) Cambridge unfinished Drawings / Lincolns Inn fair copie [cropped]

Signed and dated

1772-74
date range: 1772-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (599 x 472)

Hand

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

Watermark

XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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