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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/109

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1785, executed status unknown

Aspect

Principal (east) elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof. There is a simple ground-floor portico with Tuscan columns and steps. The ground floor is rusticated. The first and second floor bays are articulated by giant Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and pediment at attic level. There is a continuous first-floor balustrade

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the East front of a House proposed to be built at Edinbrugh for Ilay Campbell Esqr / Lord Advocate for Scotland

Signed and dated

  • 8/6/1785
    Adelphi / 8th June 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (407x284)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

WT

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 125

Level

Drawing

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