[8] Finished drawing for the elevations and 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 36/103

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for the elevations and section of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Axial section through a three-storey house with a hipped roof, with a single-storey wing with a pitched roof and steps. The section shows a bowed projection at one end of the house, and a columned portico and principal staircase at the other end, with moulded architraves and chimneypieces on each floor, with those on the principal floor of a more articulated design

Rear elevation of a house, same as SM Adam volume 36/101, with the addition of balustrades to the first-floor windows of the house, openings in the boundary walls and sphinxes to the wall piers

Principal elevation of a house, same as SM Adam volume 36/102, with the omission of the sphinx, the single-storey projections to the house and the flanking yard walls, and the addition of a central pediment, and steps to the flanking wings

Scale

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

Inscribed

Section through the body of the house from North to South / South Front of a new design for Thomas Hunter Esquire at Glencarse in Perthsire. / Elevation of the North Front of Glencarse House &c^r.

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a ruled border on laid paper (456x279)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

I Taylor

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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