[12] Design for the south elevation a house, 1789, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/81

Purpose

[12] Design for the south elevation a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear (south) elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building over a basement with a hipped roof. The ground and basement floor of the central three bays are bowed, with columns and a balustrade on the ground floor. 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 mutuled cornice at eaves level

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) South Front / (in pencil) B / Extends. 68 -

Signed and dated

27/05/1789
Albemarle Street / 27 May 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and wash on laid paper (427x265)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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