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

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  - Edinburgh Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh: designs for alterations to the Assembly Rooms, c.1787, unexecuted (7)

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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

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

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