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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/99

Purpose

[3] Design for a house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a crenellated house; with a three-storey, seven-bay central block surmounted by a hipped roof and a three-bay circular crenellated half-storey tower with oculus windows; and the central three bays of the central block are slightly projecting, with a central door on the ground storey, enclosed within an arched and crenellated porch; and the central block is flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, single-bay projecting corner towers which have oculus windows in the upper register

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front of House for Colonel St. Paul (verso) 1 / Colonel St Paul

Signed and dated

  • April 1779
    datable to April 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (436 x 300)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by cartouche and fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 165
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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