[2] Finished drawing for the front and rear elevation of two houses, c.1761-65, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Edinburgh
    - Ramsay Garden, Edinburgh: designs for a pair of houses for Allan Ramsay, c.1761-5, unexecuted (3)
      - Design for two houses for Allan Ramsay, c.1761-65, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/37

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the front and rear elevation of two houses, c.1761-65, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Principal (south) elevation of two three-storey, two-bay houses over basements with a continuous pitched roof. The ground floor is rusticated with a thick cornice above and has balustraded steps with lamps added in pencil. The windows to the principal (first) floor have moulded architraves with cornices and brackets, the second-floor windows are plain and at eaves level is a dentilled cornice with a balustraded parapet above Lower: Rear (north) elevation of two three-storey, three-bay houses with a pitched roof. The elevation is plain with a cornice above the ground floor and tall first-floor windows. There is a cornice and balustrade at eaves level

Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plain front / North front / (in pencil) north front / 11^th

Signed and dated

c.1761-65
datable to c.1761-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper within a ruled border (204x453)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Johnston, p. 5
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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