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[17] Design for the first scheme of alterations to the house, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 32/28
Purpose
[17] Design for the first scheme of alterations to the house, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the garden front of a house, with a three-storey, three-bay central block, with a hipped roof, a rusticated basement, the bays articulated by Ionic pilasters across the first and second storeys, and with paired pilasters at the edges of the end bays, and with tripartite pedimented windows in the first storey, surmounted by panels of fluting, and urns, and with half-height tripartite windows in the second storey, and with a frieze of enclosed rosettes connected by festoons. The central block is flanked by two-storey, three-bay balustraded links, with balustraded windows on the first storey, and beyond are two-storey, one-bay, pedimented pavilions, with tripartite windows, balustraded and pedimented on the first storey, and surmounted by a rectangular grisaille panel
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Second design (in pencil) / Second Design (in the hand of William Adam) / Elevation of the North East Front of Mamhead House in Devonshire. The Seat of Lord Viscount Lisburne
Signed and dated
- 1774
Adelphi July 4t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (594 x 414)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
Rowan, 1988, p. 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 1988, p. 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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