[7] Design for the rear front of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Balhazy or sometimes known as Barholm House, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for John McCulloch, executed to a variant of these designs, c.1787-88 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/113

Purpose

[7] Design for the rear front of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey house with flanking single-storey wings over a half-sunk basement. A central perron staircase is depicted in-part in front of a two-storey canted bay. The two flanking wings terminate in pavilions with pitched roofs. The pavilions have tall Venetian windows on the ground floor and Diocletian windows at basement level

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the back front / (and in the hand of William Adam) for John McCulloch Esqr / with some illegible pencil annotations. [Verso] 2

Signed and dated

29 March 1788
Albermale Street / 29 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (474x268)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR with a fleur de lys within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, II, Index, p. 3
Rowan, 1985, pp. 68-69
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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