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  • image SM Adam volume 37/98

Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/98

Purpose

[6] Alternative design for a house, c1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, eleven-bay building, with a part-sunken basement. The central three bays are projecting, with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level. At the ground- and first- storey level there are three-quarter-height windows, with half-height windows at the second-storey level, and these are set within relieving arches. In the upper register there are cross-shaped windows, and these are flaked by minor turrets with slit windows. The flanking three bays are two storeys in height, with projecting porticos at the ground-storey level. The left-hand portico contains a stepped entrance, the right-hand portico contains a window, and both are set within relieving arches flanked by turrets containing slit windows, with cross-shaped windows above. The first-storey level contains lancet windows. The building terminates in projecting, square turrets with quarter-height windows at the basement-storey level, full-height windows set within relieving arches at the ground-storey level, and three-quarter-height windows at the first-storey level. At the second-storey level there are half-height windows, and the turrets are surmounted by castellated, pitched roofs bearing weather vanes, and flanked by minor turrets with slit windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Elevation for James Macpherson Esqr at Putney Common (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1785
    c1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (464 x 303)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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