[31] Design for the second scheme of alterations to the house, 1777

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mamhead, Ashcombe, Devon: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, a garden seat, a temple and stable offices for the 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1767-80 (32)
    - Designs for the second scheme of alterations to the house, 1777 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/23

Purpose

[31] Design for the second scheme of alterations to the house, 1777

Aspect

Elevation of the north front of a house, with a two-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay principal block, with quoins, and a shallow hipped roof, and with a one-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay wing to the right-hand side, with a hipped roof

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lord Lisburne (in pencil) / North Front (in pencil) / North front of Mamhead / one of the Seats of Lord Viscount Lisburne (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

16/05/1777
Adelphi / May 16t 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (724 x 515)

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.

Level

Drawing

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