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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/98

Purpose

[6] Design for a house, 1792, executed status unknown

Aspect

Side elevation of a three-storey, three-bay building with a hipped roof. There are recessed arches to the ground floor bays with quoining at the corners of the building. Above are two continuous plat bands and a cornice at eaves level. There is a pediment to the right side of the building as well as a portico with Doric fluted columns

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the West Front (and in the hand of William Adam) of Woodburne house

Signed and dated

  • 22/03/1792
    Albemarle Street / 22 March 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (385x278)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

W within a cartouche surmounted by a fleur des lys

Literature

Bolton, Vol. II, Index, 1922, p. 31
King, Vol. II, 2001, p. 134
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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