[2] Preliminary design for a cottage, 1791, unexecuted

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  - Ayton House, Berwickshire, designs for a cottage, for John Fordyce, 1791, unexecuted (3)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/100

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a cottage, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a cottage with a rusticated colonnade and a pyramidal roof bearing a chimney stack. The roof line has a cornice of dentils and the building has a rusticated colonnade. Beyond the building there is a wrought iron carriage gateway which is ornamented with a fan and surmounted by spearheads, and there is a further gateway for foot passengers. The gateways are flanked by pyramidal topped piers

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Sketch of a Gate and Cottage at the Entrance to Aytown. House for John Fordyce Esq.r

Signed and dated

March 1791
Albermarle Street / 23.r March 1791.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (449 x 309)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 257
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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