[7] Design for the side 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 29/123

Purpose

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

Aspect

South (side) elevation of a three-storey, three-bay house over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof. The ground floor is alternating as part-rusticated, part-coursed. The upper floors have two outer pilasters with fluted capitals containing Acanthus leaf, supporting an entablature containing a fluted frieze, dentilled cornice and a central moulded panel. Above the panel is a central chimney stack flanked by deeply coved decorative walls

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South Front No. 2 for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / new town Edinburgh ~ / (verso) 4

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (590x493)

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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