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[6] Design for the second scheme for the building, 1767-68, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/32
Purpose
[6] Design for the second scheme for the building, 1767-68, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a two-storey, nine-bay building, with a hipped roof, and with an arcade across the central three recessed bays on the ground storey, surmounted by three bays colonnaded by Ionic columns on the first storey. This is flanked by three-bay projecting wings, with pitched roofs, and with additional half-height windows above each window on both the ground and first storeys
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of a New Design for the Country Room Council Room & Courts of Justice &c. / for the County & Town of Hertford proposed to be Built fronting the Market place / Principal front (in the hand of William Adam) / (5th Design) A.T.B. (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) and some measurements given and some rough calculations in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1767
Janry 9. 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (584 x 508)
Hand
James Adam
Watermark
XD&CB within a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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