[6] Design for the rear front of a house, 1789, executed in part

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  - Yester House, East Lothian: designs for alterations to a house for the 4th and 7th Marquesses of Tweeddale, c.1760-89, executed in part (8)
    - Designs for a carriage entrance and alterations to a house, 1789, executed in part (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/7

Purpose

[6] Design for the rear front of a house, 1789, executed in part

Aspect

Rear elevation of a two-storey, nine-bay building over a half-sunken basement. The central three bays and end bays of the house are articulated by composite columns with an entablature. A perron staircase is drawn in pencil connecting to an opening on the principal (ground) floor. The staircase is also shown in plan form below the elevation. Above the central three bays is a pedimented attic with square windows divided by columns. There is a hipped roof bound by a continuous balustrade. There are flanking, single-storey wings outlined in pencil containing three-bay pavilions with pitched roofs followed by eight-bay arcaded ranges with hipped roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) New Front to Yester House in East Lothian / the Seat of the Marquis of Tweddale with some pencil annotations

Signed and dated

1789
datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (103x515)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

W with a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche [and] J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index, pp. 32
King, 2001, Volume 1, pp. 188-189
Further literary references in scheme notes

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