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[162] Preliminary design for watch boxes, 1774
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 21/118
Purpose
[162] Preliminary design for watch boxes, 1774
Aspect
Rough plan and four alternative elevations for watch boxes. The plan is elliptical, with a door at one end, and a window at the other. Each elevation shows a single-storey, single bay building, with a single door through which can be seen a bench or balustrade. The top left-hand watch box has a stepped dome, with a rectangular door flanked by fluted pilasters, and surmounted by a fluted frame with a central medallion. The top right-hand watch box has a pyramidal roof, with an arched door, flanked by a string course, and with a mask key stone flanked by enclosed rosettes. The bottom left-hand watch box has a stepped dome, a door formed by swags flanked by roundels, and connected to terms. The bottom right-hand watch box has a broken-based pediment, supported by mask-shaped consoles with aprons of festoons, and an arched door flanked by a string course, and with a medallion visible on the interior wall
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Watch Boxes
Signed and dated
- December 1774
Adelphi Decemr 1774.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (209 x 288)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
Rowan, 2007, p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 2007, p. 51
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