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  • image SM Adam volume 46/90

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/90

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a house, c1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a building as SM Adam volume 29/43, but with minor alterations. The frieze for the central building is omitted and the roof is surmounted by chimney stacks. The statuary surmounting the pavilions is omitted

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Mr Radcliff Herts (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 32 / 32d (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1790
    c1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (321 x 134)

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. 18
Rowan, 1984, pp. 44-45
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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