[5] Design for the rear 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 36/101

Purpose

[5] Design for the rear elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Rear elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof, and a central three-bay bow, flanked on the principal floor by tripartite windows articulated by Tuscan columns, with a conical roof, with flanking two-storey pedimented wings with windows in relieving arches, and single-storey boundary walls terminating in piers

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Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

South front of Glencarse House and Wings, the seat of Thomas Hunter Esq^r / Extends 126 ½ feet

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (513x260)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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