[6] Design for the front elevation of a stables, c.1770, executed status unknown

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    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Designs and finished drawings for a house and stables, executed in part, c.1770-71 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/66

Purpose

[6] Design for the front elevation of a stables, c.1770, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey stable block with protruding gabled ends enclosing a ground floor loggia. There is a string course above the ground floor, a moulded cornice at eaves level and a mixture of square and rectangular windows with cills

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front of the Coach House & Stables for / Lord Chief Baron Ord / (and in the hand of William Adam) in Edinburgh with some dimensions / (verso) Chief Baron Ord’s house in Eding / (in a different hand) number 12 / (in pencil) 12

Signed and dated

c.1770
datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (382x536)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GVI surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

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