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[3] Design for the south front of a house, c1763-78, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 33/103
Purpose
[3] Design for the south front of a house, c1763-78, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a two-and-a-half-storey, seventeen-bay, balustraded building with a sunken basement storey. The central three bays are canted, and at the ground-storey level there is a central, stepped entrance flanked by balustraded windows and set behind a Corinthian colonnade. Above this there is a frieze of fluting and rosette roundels. At the first-storey level there are full-height windows set behind a Corinthian colonnade, and in the upper register there are oculi. The central three bays are flanked by four bays, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, and with full-height windows at the ground-storey level. At the first-storey level there are balustraded windows with cornices, and in the upper register there are oculi. The building terminates in canted bays, with full-height, balustraded windows set behind Corinthian colonnaded screens at the ground and first-storey levels. The upper register contains oculi
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
South front of a New Design for Temple Newsham in Yorkshire / one of the Seats of The Right Honble Lord Viscount Irwin- (all in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1763-78
date range: 1763-78. See scheme notes.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (606 x 491)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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