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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/61

Purpose

[5] Design for the principal elevation of a house, c.1770, as executed

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof. The central entrance contains panelled double-doors with a fanlight, enclosed by a columned portico comprising engaged Corinthian columns supporting an entablature comprising a dentilled architrave, a fluted frieze decorated with enclosed rosettes, and a dentilled cornice. The ground storey is rusticated with a moulded cornice above; there is a partial pen outline of Vitruvian scroll detailing on the cornice. There are five bays of first-floor rectangular windows in moulded architraves with cornices, and second-floor square windows within moulded architraves and a dentilled cornice at eaves level. There is a pencil outline of two dormer windows with pediments

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Front of a House for Lord Chief Baron Ord to be built in the / New City of Edinburgh - / (in pencil) 6th / (and in the hand of William Adam) [_ _ _]erry stable / with some dimensions and an illegible pencil inscription

Signed and dated

  • c.1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (380x533)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GVI surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 123
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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