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  • image SM Adam volume 46/97

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/97

Purpose

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

Aspect

Same as SM Adam volume 45/63 with the addition of statues in the niches, a festooned frieze over the first floor screen and detailing around the outer-bay windows on the first and ground floors

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

36th (in pencil) / 36 (in pen) / (and in the hand of William Adam) Honble Keith Stewart

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (243x139)

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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