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  • image SM Adam volume 21/104

Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/104

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a cottage and gates, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Elevation of a two-storey building with single-storey projecting wings flanking the central block. There is a central three-bay loggia with rustic columns, with a Diocletian window on the upper floor, and each range has a pitched roof with mutuled cornices. Adjoining the flanking wings are timber fences Lower: Ground-storey plan showing three rooms with a loggia across the front. The staircase is in the central large room with a fireplace opposite. Rooms include a kitchen and a pantry

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

kitchen / pantry with some room dimensions and pencil annotations

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including sepia, Naples yellow, olive green and Indian red on laid paper (269x310)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

King, 2001, pp. 253-255, 258
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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