[6] Design showing the garden front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations

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  - Ancaster House, Queen’s Road, Richmond: designs for the house for the 3rd Duke of Ancaster, 1773, executed with alterations (8)
    - Designs for Ancaster House, 1773, executed with alterations (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/130

Purpose

[6] Design showing the garden front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of the garden (southeast) front of a house as Adam volume 29/131, but with no windows on the mezzanine storey, and the bow is behind a five-bay arcade on the ground storey, which is surmounted by a five-bay Ionic balustraded colonnade on the first storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 4/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South East towards the Park (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1

Signed and dated

19/07/1773
19 July 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (421 x 269)

Hand

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

Watermark

VL surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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