[7] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1777, unexecuted

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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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/137

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, octagonal rustic cottage, with a conical roof with two high chimney stacks, and set within a landscape, with a central door set within a rusticated relieving arch, flanked by projecting window bays with pitched tiled roofs, and with a central balustraded window on the first storey, which is slightly recessed under a broken-base pediment

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

David Garrick Esqr (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1777
1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia, pink and olive green on laid paper (201 x 171)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 258
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
Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008

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