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[7] Preliminary design for a rustic cottage, 1777, unexecuted
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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.
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
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk