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[13] Design for the principal front of a house, 1783, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/36
Purpose
[13] Design for the principal front of a house, 1783, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house as SM Adam volume 36/37, with alterations including the addition of a string course of Vitruvian scroll above the first-storey level, Tuscan eaves, and with the central bay surmounted by a tablet inscribed Findlater House, which supports the Findlater arms flanked by recumbent lions. Above the ground-storey tripartite windows in the first and fifth bays there are relief urns ornamenting the heads of the relieving arches
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation towards the Court of a Town house for The Right Hon.ble The Earl of Findlater & Seafield / (and in the hand of Robert Adam, red ink) A Copy of this given to my Lord / 13.t Sep.r 1789 the Arms at top [_ _ _]font(?) / 23
Signed and dated
- August 1783
Adelphi / 27.t Aug.st 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (522 x 368)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with notation in the hand of Robert Adam
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with notation in the hand of Robert Adam
Verso
no 1 / no 1 / 2 Elevations & [_] Ground plans / Earl of Findlater Town House (obscured where affixed)
Watermark
LV
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 103-4, Index, p. 45
Rowan, 1985, p. 138
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 57, 102-6, 130, pl. 114
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 1985, p. 138
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 57, 102-6, 130, pl. 114
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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