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Reference number

SM Adam volume 28/14

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing showing a view of the elevation towards Chancery Lane, 1772-74, unexecuted

Aspect

View showing the Chancery Lane (west) front of the building as Adam volume 28/11, with staffage in front

Scale

measured

Inscribed

Perspective View of the Front towards Chancery Lane (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 6 / 6

Signed and dated

  • 1772-74
    date range: 1772-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (914 x 503)

Hand

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

Watermark

D&SBLAUW IV and XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Tait, 1996, p. 39
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
Hradsky, 2009, p. 97
Sands, 2024, pp. 22-23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
In Pursuit of Antiquity: Drawings by the Giants of British Neo-Classicism, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1 February - 1 June 2008; Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, 3 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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