[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1789, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/85

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal (north) elevation of a two-storey, three-bay building over a basement, with a hipped roof. The central bay is pedimented and projects with a single-storey portico containing Tuscan columns with fluted capitals. The outer bays contain ground floor tripartite windows with Tuscan columns set within recessed arches, the first and basement floors contain square-headed windows. There is a dentilled cornice at eaves level and a sphinx set on a plinth containing a festooned medallion over the central bay

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

B / (in the hand of William Adam) North Front of a House for Thomas Gillies Esqr

Signed and dated

27/05/1789
Albemarle Street / 27 May 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and wash on laid paper (476x263)

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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