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[30] Design for the second scheme of alterations to the house, 1777
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 32/22
Purpose
[30] Design for the second scheme of alterations to the house, 1777
Aspect
Elevation of the south front of a house, with a two-storey, nine-bay principal block, with a shallow hipped roof, and with a one-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay wing to the left-hand side, with a hipped roof. The principal block is ornamented with quoins, a frieze of enclosed rosettes, balustrades across the windows on the first storey, and with a three-bay canted bow in the end bays, flanking the central three bays which are arcaded with relieving arches on the ground storey, and articulated with Doric pilasters on the first storey (verso) pencil drawing of the same
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Lord Lisburne South Front (in pencil) / South front of Mamhead / one of the Seats of Lord Viscount Lisburne (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) Lord Lisburne / 3 Elevations 3 Ground Plans / South Front (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 16/05/1777
Adelphi / May 16t 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (179 x 514)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
Rowan, 1988, p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 1988, p. 88
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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