[8] Finished drawing showing a view of the elevation towards Chancery Lane, 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)
    - Finished drawings showing views of the scheme, 1772-74, unexecuted (2)

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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

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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