[6] Finished drawing for the principal front of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

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  - Balhazy or sometimes known as Barholm House, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for John McCulloch, executed to a variant of these designs, c.1787-88 [8]

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/112

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the principal front of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey house with flanking single-storey wings over a half-sunk basement. There is a central perron staircase to the principal entrance on the piano nobile with a Diocletian window within the staircase platform at basement level. The entrance comprises a tripartite opening within a relieving arch with a fanlight all within a two-storey pedimented portico. The two flanking wings terminate in pavilions with tripartite windows within classical entablatures (verso) with a small preliminary design of a detail (in pencil)

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal front of a new Design of a House for John McCulloch Esqr / at Balhazy Galloway with some illegible pencil annotations. (Verso) Mr McCulloch 6/10 / 1

Signed and dated

1788
datable to 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within ruled border on laid paper (473x275)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, II, Index, p. 3
Rowan, 1985, pp. 68-69
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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