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[6] Alternative design for a house, c1785, unexecuted
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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
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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