[18] Design for the roof of a house, 1786, unexecuted

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  - Hill House, Putney Heath, three schemes for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Bt., c1786-7, unexecuted (25)
    - Second scheme for Hill House, Putney, c1786
      - Designs for a house, c1786, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/69

Purpose

[18] Design for the roof of a house, 1786, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the roof of a five-by-three-bay building. The central rectangular block has pitched roofs to the east and west, and there is a central light-well formed with conical oculi. The roof line extends to the north and south, with semi-conical roofs

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Roof of the House on Putney Heath / for Sir Samuel Hannay Bart- (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

October 1786
Albemarle Street / 25.t Oct.r 1786-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (305 x 492)

Hand

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

Verso

No 8 / No 12 (in the hand of William Adam) / (obscured where affixed) [No 8 The]se Plans go in 12th into the book

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 26
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 80-1, 109, 127, pl. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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