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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/63

Purpose

[5] Design for the front elevation of a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey, nine-bay house with an attic level and a hipped roof. The end bays project forward with gabled ends containing dormers and pedimented tripartite windows on the first floor. The central three bays are articulated within a three-storey pedimented block adorned with niches, an Ionic-column screen, a fluted frieze, swagged panels and enclosed rosettes. There is a Tuscan portico supporting a first floor balcony. There is a continuous moulded cornice at eaves level and string coursing between each floor. There are a mixture of tripartite windows, square-headed windows, Diocletian windows in the attic and an oculus

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the South front of Glasserton House the Seat of / The Honble Commodore Keith Stewart

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (361x258)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 106, 136
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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