[6] Alternative design for a house, c1785, unexecuted

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  - Putney Common, designs for a house for James Macpherson, c1785, unexecuted (6)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/98

Purpose

[6] Alternative design for a house, c1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, eleven-bay building, with a part-sunken basement. The central three bays are projecting, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level. At the ground- and first- storey level there are three-quarter-height windows, with half-height windows at the second-storey level, and these are set within relieving arches. In the upper register there are cross-shaped windows, and these are flaked by minor turrets with slit windows. The flanking three bays are two storeys in height, with projecting porticos at the ground-storey level. The left-hand portico contains a stepped entrance, the right-hand portico contains a window, and both are set within relieving arches flanked by turrets containing slit windows, with cross-shaped windows above. The first-storey level contains lancet windows. The building terminates in projecting, square turrets with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, full-height windows set within relieving arches at the ground-storey level, and three-quarter-height windows at the first-storey level. At the second-storey level there are half-height windows, and the turrets are surmounted by castellated, pitched roofs bearing weather vanes, and flanked by minor turrets with slit windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Elevation for James Macpherson Esqr at Putney Common (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

c1785
c1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (464 x 303)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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