[3] Finished drawing for a house showing the principal elevation, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Monsieur Chambres: unexecuted designs for a terraced house, ND (4)
    - Finished drawings for a terraced house, ND, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/50

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a house showing the principal elevation, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof, with an arcade of relieving arches along the ground storey containing four windows and a carriage arch in the left-hand bay. There is a double string course between the ground and first storeys, and with full-height moulded windows on the first storey, and half-height windows on the second storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation d’une Maison pour Monsr. Chambres vers la Rue / 15th (in pencil) / No 27 (in pencil) and measurements given

Signed and dated

1758-94
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (287 x 453)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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