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  • image SM Adam volume 46/183

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/183

Purpose

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

Aspect

Same as SM Adam volume 21/104 including a plan of the front elevation

Scale

bar scale of 1.5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

78 / Elevation of a Cottage - / (in the hand of William Adam) Unknown / (and in pencil) 79th / Unknown

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 within a ruled border on laid paper (460x269)

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

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

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