[32] Finished drawing for the east front of a house, c1790, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/131

Purpose

[32] Finished drawing for the east front of a house, c1790, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the east front of a two-storey, three-bay building, with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. The central bay is projecting, and contains a balustraded, aedicule window, with an oculus flanked by festoons above, and all this is set within a relieving arch. There are full-height windows at the ground-storey level, and at the first-storey level there is a string course of guilloche, with half-height windows above. The building has a frieze of fluting, and there is a stepped Tuscan portico to the north, and a stepped Ionic portico to the south

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Unknown- Side View- (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 52 / 52d (pencil)

Signed and dated

c1790
c1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (145 x 239)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Richard Crichton or John Charels, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
Rowan, 1985, pp. 38, 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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