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[19] Finished drawing for a house and offices, c1784, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/80
Purpose
[19] Finished drawing for a house and offices, c1784, unexecuted
Aspect
Longitudinal section of a building with a hipped roof and a part-sunken basement. There is a dog-leg staircase to the west, which extends from the basement-storey level to the first-storey level, and this is lit by a conical oculus. At the ground-storey level there is a central room with an apse set behind an Ionic screen, and the ceiling is ornamented with a central patera and fan. To the west of the principal building there is an elevation of a two-storey building, with three bays projecting which contain an entrance and windows, with Diocletian windows above, all set within relieving arches. Flanking the three bays there are single-storey Tuscan colonnades. Further west the colonnade links to a two-storey building, surmounted by a belvedere, and supporting a weather vane
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section from East to West / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of Doctor Turtons House / No. 30.
Signed and dated
- c1784
c1784
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow within a single ruled border on laid paper (587 x 360)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
5
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122; Volume II, pl. 118
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122; Volume II, pl. 118
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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