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[3] Design for the first scheme for the building, 1767-68, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/29
Purpose
[3] Design for the first scheme for the building, 1767-68, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a two-storey building with a hipped roof, with a recessed three-bay central block, with an arcaded ground storey, composed of a central window flanked by doors, and with balustraded Venetian windows within relieving arches on the first storey. The central block is flanked by three-bay wings with pitched roofs. With pencil-drawn annotations showing the addition of a central drum and dome over the building, and moreover, it appears that rectangular ornamental panels above the first storey windows in the wings have been scratched out
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of a New Design of the Court Room, Council Room & Courts of Justice / for the County & Town of Hertford, proposed to be built on a spot of Ground without the Town / B (in pencil) and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1767-68
date range: 1767-68
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (624 x 508)
Hand
James Adam
Watermark
D&CBLAUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 56 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 56 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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