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[4] Finished drawing for alterations to the elevation of the assembly rooms and flanking buildings, c.1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/33
Purpose
[4] Finished drawing for alterations to the elevation of the assembly rooms and flanking buildings, c.1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of three, two-storey buildings connected by archways for sedan chairs and coaches. The central building is seven-bays wide with a central dome decorated with festoons. The ground floor is rusticated and the three central bays are articulated by an arcade surmounted by Ionic columns supporting a pediment. The first-floor outer bays have Venetian windows and pairs of Ionic pilasters supporting a continuous fluted frieze with enclosed rosettes, adorned with trophies above. The flanking buildings are shown in part and are a matching design. They are three-storeys and four-bays wide with porticos in the central and outer bays and Venetian windows within recessed arches above. The elevation is adorned with heraldry over the central bay at eaves level
Scale
bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for altering the North front of the Assembly rooms at Edinburgh showing the / Entrance for Chairs & Coaches on each side with some of the adjoining houses in the Street. / (verso) 1 / (in pencil) Assembly Rooms Edinbu--
Signed and dated
- c.1787
datable to c.1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper within a ruled border (522x330)
Hand
possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 10
Further literary references in scheme notes
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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