[43] Finished drawing for the section through the house, c1768-70, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - The Royal Terrace
        Number 5, Royal Terrace
        Finished drawings showing plans, elevation and section for the house, c1768-70, as executed (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/61

Purpose

[43] Finished drawing for the section through the house, c1768-70, as executed

Aspect

Axial section through a five-storey house, with a mezzanine level in the basement in the principal front, and with pitched roofs, and a central stairwell which is top lit by a central conical oculus, and with arched recesses in the walls of the front rooms on the ground and first storeys

Scale

bar scale of 2 4/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House. from A to B as mark’t on the plan David Garrick Esqr in the Adelphi (David Garrick Esqr in the Adelphi in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 2

Signed and dated

c1768-70
datable to c1768-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (786 x 607)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 82
Rowan, 2007, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

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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