[5] Design for the principal front of a house, 1790, executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Dunbar House, also known as Lauderdale House, East Lothian: Designs for additions to a house for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790-92, executed in part (12)
    - Designs for a house, 1790-92, executed in part (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/50

Purpose

[5] Design for the principal front of a house, 1790, executed

Aspect

Front (principal) elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay house with three-bay projecting flanking wings, over a half-sunk basement. The central block has a two-storey, semi-circular portico and a balustraded roof. The flanking wings contain Venetian windows and pedimented roofs

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North front of the Earl of Lauderdale’s house at Dunbar with some dimensions

Signed and dated

31/03/1790
Albemarle Street / 31 March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (460x275)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 10
Further literary references in the scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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