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  • image SM Adam volume 43/66

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

Level

Drawing

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