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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/69

Purpose

[28] Finished drawing for the north front of a house, c1784, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building, as SM Adam volume 1/109, but the ornamentation of the portico frieze is omitted

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Doctor Turtons House North Front (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1784
    c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border (402 x 244)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of Willliam Adam

Verso

No 3

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
Rowan, 1985, p. 38, pls. 8-10
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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