[6] Preliminary design for a garden seat, c1774-77, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Hampton House (later Garrick’s villa), Hampton Court Road, Richmond: designs for alterations to the house and garden buildings for David Garrick, 1774-77 (7)
    - Preliminary design for a garden seat, c1774-77, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/125

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a garden seat, c1774-77, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan and elevation of a single-storey, three-bay garden seat, with a curved apse within the central bay, containing a seat, and ornamented with (faux?) drapery, flanked by sculpture-filled niches, articulated by Doric pilasters, and with a frieze of fluting and medallions, and surmounted by sculpted griffons flanking an urn on a pedestal

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mrs Garrick wish'd to have a Private Seat for the [cropped] / Lawn behind the House at Hampton, [ _ _ _ _ _ ] not [cropped] / one be made with the whole ornamt [ _ _ _ ] of [cropped] / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] be part [ _ _ _ _ _ ] a [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] Wall as [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] [cropped] and some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1774-77
datable to c1774-77

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (205 x 200)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 219
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Every Look Speaks': Portraits of David Garrick, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 16 September - 9 December 2003

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