[4] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

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  - Glencarse House, Perth and Kinross: designs for a house for Thomas Hunter Esq, 1790, executed to a variant design (8)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/102

Purpose

[4] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Principal elevation of a two-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, with flanking single-storey wings and boundary walls. The central bay of the house is projected, with a simple Tuscan portico, and a sphinx at roof level, and the flanking wings have tripartite openings articulated by Tuscan columns supporting a portico

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North front of Glencarse House as altered from the first design for Thomas Hunter Esq^r / Extends 126 ½ feet

Signed and dated

7/9/1790
Edin^g 7 Sept^r / 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (475x289)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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