West Wycombe Park: west portico: elevation and plan for west portico
Robert Adam, c.1760–61
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Robert Adam, West Wycombe Park: west portico: elevation and plan for west portico
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: west portico: elevation and plan for west portico
- Date
- c.1760–61
- Location
- Framed, hanging in First Floor Passage, location 231 on Dashwood list, AP 37, Witt 706/37 (384)
- Medium and support
- Pen and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 64 cm, Overall width: 47 cm
- Artist
- Robert Adam (1728-1792)
- Catalogue Number
- WW29
- Inscription
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- Inscriptions: ‘Elevation of an Ionic Portico proposed to be erected at the West End of West Wycombe House in Buckinghamshire one of the seats of the Right Honble. Baron Le Despencer’, ‘Plan of the Portico’
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Description
Another version of this drawing is at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (SM Adam vol. 44/114). See figure 5 in Introduction.