[2] Finished drawing showing an elevation of the principal (north) front, c1768-70, partly as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mellerstain, Earlston, Scottish Borders: designs for the house, interiors, and an unexecuted memorial tower for the Hon. George Baillie, c1768-78 (19)
    - Finished drawings for the addition of a central block, and alterations to William Adam’s wings, largely as executed, c1768-70 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/42

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing showing an elevation of the principal (north) front, c1768-70, partly as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (north) front of a two-and-a-half-storey, seventeen-bay crenellated house, over a half-sunk basement, with the central three and end two bays projecting and with an additional attic storey, and surmounted by pitched roofs, and the central entrance on the first storey is accessed by a straight staircase, and the house is flanked by two-storey, four-bay crenellated pavilions, with hipped roofs, and with central single-bay circular clock towers

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of Mellerstain House One of the Seats of The Honble George Baillie of Jerviswood Esqr. / Rose of ground in the North Court and some measurements given (verso) 1

Signed and dated

c1768-70
datable to c1768-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (840 x 424)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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