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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/56

Purpose

[6] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the east (inside the rear U-shaped court) of the kitchen wing (the left-hand wing on Adam volume 43/57-43/58), showing a one-and-a-half-storey, five-bay link, with a pitched roof, and balustraded half-height windows in the upper register, flanked by two-storey, two-bay projecting wings, also with pitched roofs, and the left-hand wing has a single-storey, single-bay pitched roofed link shown in section

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

East Front of the Kitchen Offices. for John Role Walter Esqr / in Devonshire (for John Role Walter / in Devonshire in the hand of William Adam) / Window and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • March 1772
    Adelphi March 27th. 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (541 x 382)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

2

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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