[5] Design for a principal elevation of a house, c.1768-9, not executed

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    - St Andrew Square, number 35, Edinburgh: designs for a house for Andrew Crosbie, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design (8)
      - Designs for a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/120

Purpose

[5] Design for a principal elevation of a house, c.1768-9, not executed

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof. The ground floor is shown alternating as part-coursed and part-rusticated, with a central entrance comprising a set of steps leading to panelled double-doors with a fanlight. The steps are lined with a balustrade that terminates in a lamp at street level. The first and second floors are articulated by six engaged columns with fluted capitals decorated with Acanthus leaf. There is a bottle-neck balustrade to the first-floor windows and a frieze containing guilloche below the second floor. At eaves level is a fluted frieze and dentilled cornice with a central pediment containing a festoon with rosettes in a central panel

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of a House in the New Town of Edinburgh for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / No. 1 with some dimensions

Signed and dated

c.1768-9
datable to c.1768-9

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (593x488)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 125
Further literary references in scheme notes

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