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[4] Design for a doorway in the garden wall, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 34/109
Purpose
[4] Design for a doorway in the garden wall, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevations of each side of a single-storey, single-bay pedimented gateway, with a central door within a relieving arch, and surmounted by a medallion, and on the road side this is flanked by Doric pilasters, and surmounted by a tablet in the frieze containing an ox skull flanked by festoons, and on the side towards the house the door is flanked by lotus capital engaged columns, supporting a Doric frieze ornamented with ox skulls flanked by festoons
Scale
bar scale of 4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Front of the Door towards the Road / Design of a Door for David Garrick Esqr at Hampton fronting the House
Signed and dated
- 20/10/1774
Adelphi Octr 20t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (384 x 523)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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