[8] Alternative design for an elevation for a house, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design

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    - St Andrew Square, number 35, Edinburgh: designs for a house for Andrew Crosbie, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design (8)
      - Alternative design for the front elevation of a house, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/121

Purpose

[8] Alternative design for an elevation for a house, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Recto: part-elevation of the principal front of a house comprising a three-storey, five-bay house over a half-sunk basement. The ground and first floors are articulated by six Ionic engaged columns and there is a central set of steps lined with a balustrade terminating in a lamp at street level. There is a Vitruvian scroll string-course below the first floor windows, and above the first floor is a moulded entablature with a fluted frieze decorated with enclosed rosettes. The second floor is divided by stout pilasters with fluted capitals supporting a cornice Verso: preliminary design same as SM Adam volume 29/120

Scale

recto: bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet verso: bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of a House in the New Town of Edinburgh / for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r with some dimensions. (Verso) Andrew Crosbie Esq^r

Signed and dated

c.1768-9
datable to c.1768-9

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (600x481)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 125
Further literary references in scheme notes

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