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Signed and dated
- 1791
Notes
It has been suggested by Dougan that the designs were made for plot 1, at the south east corner of Millar Street. This was the original home of John Miller who developed the street, and was the first person in Glasgow to define the height, style and use of a property in the deeds as a condition of sale. John Alston-Youngest was the grandson of John Miller.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 14, 60; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, p. 121
With thanks to researcher, Mark Dougan.
Frances Sands, 2015
Updated 2021
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).