[8] Preliminary designs for a building, ND, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Design for a gate, ND, executed status unknown

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/201

Purpose

[8] Preliminary designs for a building, ND, executed status unknown

Aspect

Upper left: Rough elevation of a parapet showing oval mouldings Upper right: Rough elevation of part of a building showing a machicolated cornice and profile of an entablature and base Lower: Rough elevation of a wall with hexagonal piers, hood mouldings over openings and a crocketed parapet

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Yester Marquis of Tweddle / (and in pencil) Parapet / Cornice at top of new Building / Base

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (300x167)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Notes

It is not entirely clear what this drawing relates to as it does not bare resemblance to any other designs or buildings.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index, pp. 32
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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