[9] Finished drawing showing a view of the elevation towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the clerks’ office, 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 28/13

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing showing a view of the elevation towards Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the clerks’ office, 1772-74, unexecuted

Aspect

View showing the Lincoln’s Inn Fields (east) front of the building as Adam volume 28/10, and the principal front of the clerks’ office as Adam volume 28/12, and in front there is staffage within a piazza as Adam volume 28/15

Scale

measured

Inscribed

Perspective View of the Fronts towards Lincolns Inn Gardens and Fields (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 5

Signed and dated

1772-74
date range: 1772-74

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (908 x 499)

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
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
Hradsky, 2009, p. 96
Sands, 2024, pp. 8-11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Néoclassicisme, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 29 November 2010 - 14 February 2011
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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