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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/106

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for alterations to the rear elevation of the assembly rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building with a central three-storey round tower with a conical roof. The ground floor is partly coursed. The outer bays contain tripartite ground-floor windows and Venetian first-floor windows within recessed arches. The central three bays are screened by a two-storey bowed loggia comprising a ground-floor arcade supporting a first-floor balustrade and screen of Ionic columns supporting a continuous entablature and balustrade above. The tower contains oculi within bays articulated by plain moulded piers with a continuous frieze
  • image SM Adam volume 1/106

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Signed and dated

  • c.1787
    datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (226x188)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 10
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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