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  • image SM Adam volume 33/40

Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/40

Purpose

[41] Design for a banqueting house, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Profile of a building as in Adam volumes 33/38, 41-42, 112, but with a tripartite window in the upper register of the central block, and showing the porte cochère to be composed of an arch

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For the Earl of Lonsdale (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 3 Elevations 1 Plan for Lord Lonsdale

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    datable to 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (300 x 516)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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