[6] Variant design for the principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted

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  - Glasgow Assembly Rooms: designs, c.1791-94, executed in part (10)
    - Designs for the Glasgow Assembly Rooms, c,1791-94, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 2/69

Purpose

[6] Variant design for the principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a two-storey, three-bay building with single-bay flanking links terminating in three-bay blocks. The central three bays project forward with a ground-floor arcade and a screen of the Tuscan order supporting an entablature and raised parapet with a central coat of arms flanked by reclining figures. The flanking links have Ionic first-floor screens and the outer blocks are pilastered with pediments and acroteria above the first floor. The entire ground floor is rusticated and there are a mixture of arched, tripartite, Venetian and square-headed windows as well as decorative friezes, festoons, medallions, panels, and urns

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(in pencil) Assembly Rooms Glasgow / [_ _ _] wings referred to [_ _ _] Mr Adams letter to the Committee / 1792

Signed and dated

1792
datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (290x183)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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