Hanover Square, London: elevation of a single-storey building with Tuscan temple front
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, c.1749–52
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Hanover Square, London: elevation of a single-storey building with Tuscan temple front
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- Hanover Square, London: elevation of a single-storey building with Tuscan temple front
- Date
- c.1749–52
- Location
- Unframed, drawings chest outside Library, location 240 on Dashwood list, AP 174, Witt 941/11 (37)
- Medium and support
- Ink and wash on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 32.3 cm, Overall width: 50 cm
- Artist
- Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695-1766)
- Catalogue Number
- WW61
- Inscription
-
- Scale, without numbering
Related catalogue items from West Wycombe
-
West Wycombe
West Wycombe Park: west portico: profile of entablature and frieze of inner face of portico
Nicholas Revett, c.1771
-
West Wycombe
West Wycombe Park: north front: design with temple front and banded Doric columns on ground floor
John Donowell, after Isaac Ware, c.1740–50
-
West Wycombe
Triumphal arch in Florence
design by Jean-Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Issey, engraving by Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, c.1740s
Description
Although this elevation has the same tripartite division as the solution above, WW60, it has a more austere presentation with a Tuscan order and a variant of a Doric frieze. The lack of doorways on the sides indicates that this was not intended to give access beyond; it is possible that it is a proposal for a library, later built by Adam (fig. 1).
Figure 1.
Robert Adam, Drawn by Adam office hand. Design for the walls for the library, 18 Hanover Square 1766, SM Adam volume 50/72, Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Digital image courtesy of Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photography by Ardon Bar Hama. (All rights reserved)