[6] Design for the rear elevation of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Edinburgh
    - 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 29/122

Purpose

[6] Design for the rear elevation of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

Aspect

Recto: elevation of a three-storey, three-bay house over a half-sunk basement. The ground floor is alternating as part-rusticated, part-coursed. The upper floors have two outer pilasters with fluted capitals containing Acanthus leaf, and a dentilled cornice. The central first-floor window has a pedimented, bracketed architrave, set within a recessed arch Verso: same as recto with a central pediment and columns partly erased

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Back Front No. 3 – for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / new town Edinburgh ~ / (verso) (in pencil) Back Front

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (594x481)

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

Level

Drawing

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