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  • image SM Adam volume 10/151

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/151

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the principal elevation of a castellated house, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey building, over a half-sunk basement, with flanking links terminating in pavilions with single-storey boundary walls. The central bay projects forward and is flanked by single-bay towers, with a pyramidal roof and the central bay of the end pavilions have stepped gables. There are a mixture of tripartite windows, arched windows, cross windows, slit windows and oculi and across the entire elevation are crenelations, corbelled bartizans, machicolated cornices and hood mouldings

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1790
    datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (391x122)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Part of J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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