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[152] Finished drawing for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 44/95
Purpose
[152] Finished drawing for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a two-storey, seven-bay building, with the central five bays projecting, and articulated and screened by lotus capital pilasters and columns supporting a pediment, with a clock in the tympanum, and three sculpture-filled acroteria, and with a central pedimented door, flanked by two bays of sculpture-filled niches, and with pedimented windows in the recessed end bays, and the whole has a string course of Vitruvian scroll, surmounted by rectangular panels of arabesques, a sub-frieze of rosettes, festoons and winged sphinxes, and a frieze of strigils and calyx
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of a Church for Durham yard (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1769-76
date range: 1769-76
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (599 x 488)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
Rowan, 2007, pp. 58, 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
Rowan, 2007, pp. 58, 59
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
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