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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/64

Purpose

[7] Design for the side elevation of a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof and attic, and a bowed end. The ground floor is screened by a single-storey service wing which is articulated by a central open-bed pediment over a doorway flanked by bowed bays with conical roofs and terminating in block pavilions with recessed arches, Diocletian windows and topped with urns at the roof. There is a continuous moulded cornice at eaves level and string coursing between each floor. There are a mixture of square-headed windows within plain surrounds, pedimented surrounds and recessed arches

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the East front of Glasserton House / (in the hand of William Adam) for Admiral Keith Stewart

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (472x275)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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