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[42] Finished drawing for the elevation of the house, c1768-70, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/60
Purpose
[42] Finished drawing for the elevation of the house, c1768-70, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a four-storey, three-bay house, with a pitched balustraded roof, and half-height windows on the third storey, and with a door surmounted by a fanlight, and a console architrave in the left-hand bay on the ground storey, and flanked by iron railings, and the façade is ornamented with a string course of fluting between the ground and first storeys, pilasters ornamented with anthemia in the shafts articulating the bays on the first and second storeys, the first storey windows have ironwork balconies, and there is a frieze between the second and third storeys containing calyx and anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts
Scale
bar scale of 2 4/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation of a House for David Garrick Esqr. (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1768-70
datable to c1768-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (386 x 568)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 80
Rowan, 2007, pp. 15, 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 80
Rowan, 2007, pp. 15, 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
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
'The Cloud-Capped Towers': Shakespeare in Soane's Architectural Imagination, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 April - 8 October 2016
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
'The Cloud-Capped Towers': Shakespeare in Soane's Architectural Imagination, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 April - 8 October 2016
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