[17] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1769, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Lowther Hall and village, Penrith, Cumberland: designs for a model village, and unexecuted designs for rebuilding Lowther Hall, a dairy, banqueting house, gateway and stables for Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet, 1766-71 and 1785 (41)
    - Lowther Hall
      - Preliminary designs and finished drawing for a rectangular house, 1769, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/176

Purpose

[17] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a five- by five-bay house, with a central staircase, a central three-bay canted bow on the garden front, a central three-bay segmental bow on the left-hand side, a tripartite entrance into the hall on the right-hand side, and the central three bays on the principal front are recessed and behind a screen of two columns

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Bed Chamber / Sr Jas Lowther Dressing Room / Dining Room / Vestible / Drawing Room / Hall / Antichamber / Lady Marys Dressg room / Portico and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (155 x 139)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

(19) fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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