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[4] Design for the north front of a house, c1762, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 45/12
Purpose
[4] Design for the north front of a house, c1762, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the north front of a two-storey, five-bay building with a hipped roof, a part-sunken basement, and a raised ground-storey level. At the basement-storey level there are quarter-height windows. At the ground-storey level there is a central, stepped entrance flanked by three-quarter-height windows, and all this is set behind a Tuscan colonnaded screen, with a frieze of rosettes and fluting above. The building terminates in projecting bays, with full-height windows at the ground-storey level, and a string course and half-height windows in the upper register. The projecting bay to the west has a pitched roof, where the projecting bay to the east has a flat roof
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
North front of a House for John Jones Esqr at Charlton- (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) with some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1762
c1762
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (529 x 378)
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. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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