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[5] Design for the principal front of a house, 1789, executed in part
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/5
Purpose
[5] Design for the principal front of a house, 1789, executed in part
Aspect
Front (principal) elevation of a two-storey, nine-bay building with flanking single-storey single-bay links and three-bay pavilions, over a basement level. On the first floor, the central three bays are articulated by Ionic pilasters supporting a pediment adorned with a coat of arms. The pediment is crowned by three statues. The flanking three bays of the main block are balustraded with a hipped roof and there are pencil outlines of chimney stacks. Adjoining the front is a large, ramped, coach entrance adorned with a Vitruvian scroll balustrade to both ramped sides and, on the platform, a bottle-neck balustrade flanked by piers surmounted with tripods. The platform is coursed and contains an arched opening. The flanking pavilions contain Diocletian windows with voussoirs at basement (ground) level, and hipped roofs with weathervanes
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
New Design for altering and decorating the North Front of Yester House and Wings showing the new Parapet and Ramp / leading to the Door of the Parlor Story ~ / (in the hand of William Adam) the Seat of the Marquis of Tweddale with some pencil annotations. (Verso) 1
Signed and dated
- 24/03/1789
Albemarle Street / 24th March 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (576x494)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Index, pp. 32
King, 2001, Volume 1, pp. 188-189
Further literary references in scheme notes
King, 2001, Volume 1, pp. 188-189
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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