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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/21

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a house, c1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a one-and-a-half-storey, thirteen-bay building, with a pitched, thatched roof. There is a central, stepped entrance set within a pedimented portico articulated by rustic columns. The entrance is flanked by slit windows crossed in lead, and full-height windows. In the upper register there are quarter-height, gabled, leaded windows. The building terminates in one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay pavilions, with projecting, tripartite, leaded windows at the ground-storey level. At the first-storey level there are leaded Diocletian windows. The building is surmounted by a stepped dome, which is bordered with a band of fluting, and this is flanked by draped statuary

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

General Hervey (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) Extends 94 Feet / 92 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1766
    c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia and Indian red within a single ruled border on laid paper (503 x 637)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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