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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

Record drawing for the soffit of the portico, executed with alterations, July 1763 (1)

Adam's design for the portico was altered in execution. John Harris notes that this addition was Adam's attempt to enliven Leadbetter's 'uninspired slab-like block', producing a temple front and an early expression of fully formed Neo-Classicism.

There is a plan and section by Adam for the portico in the RIBA drawings collection.

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Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

[40] Record drawing for the soffit of the portico, executed with alterations, July 1763

July 1763

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 11/73

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