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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/67

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for the rear elevation of a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear (south) elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building over a basement, with a hipped roof. The central three bays are contained within a full-storey bow with a conical roof, comprising two-storey Ionic columns with a bottle-neck balustrade. The outer bays contain ground floor tripartite windows set within recessed arches, the first and basement floors contain square-headed windows though there are arches outlined at basement level also

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1789
    datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (251x172)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 3
King, 2001, p. 121
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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