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Bonomi (Joseph) Lansdowne House Library

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pen and watercolour, 280 x 470mm., 11 x 18½in., black ruled border on three sides, scale at foot, inscribed with above title and signed "Joseph Bonomi, Architect, 1786, Gt. Titchfield Street", light overall browning, slight creasing and two short tears at sheet edges, verso with the small ink stamp of the RIBA (where the drawing was on deposit) endorsed in pencil "Returned to owner".

***Provenance: By descent from Joseph Bonomi to the present owner. A group of drawings by Bonomi from this collection was sold in these rooms, 1 June 2000, lots 80-87. In 1762 Robert Adam began work on a house on the south side of Berkeley Square for the 3rd Earl of Bute. Three years later Bute sold the unfinished shell to William Petty, Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis Lansdowne. Adam continued to work on the house (his plans and services were included in the purchase price) which was largely complete by 1768. Bonomi's unexecuted design for fitting up the gallery as a library was the fifth to be commissioned by Lansdowne who had already rejected proposals for the gallery from Adam himself (c.1764, drawing in Sir John Soane's Museum), Pannini (1772), Clerisseau (1774) and Belanger (1779). George Dance's designs of 1788-91 were eventually realised as a sculpture gallery in 1816-19 by Robert Smirke..

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