[6] Design for the section 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 36/104

Purpose

[6] Design for the section of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Part-elevation, part-longitudinal section comprising a three-storey house with a hipped roof, with two-storey flanking pedimented wings and walls terminating in two-storey piers with pyramidal tops. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section from West to East upon the Line AB on the Plan of the principal Story / (verso) no 3

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and Naples yellow on laid paper (309x327)

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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