[8] Design for the south front of a house, 1777, as executed

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  - Langside or Aikenhead House, Glasgow: designs for a house and stable offices for Thomas Brown, 1777, as executed (10)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/21

Purpose

[8] Design for the south front of a house, 1777, as executed

Aspect

South elevation of a two-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof and projecting single-storey bow ends over a half-sunk basement. The central three bays are pedimented with a festooned medallion in the centre, with a ground-floor entrance with balustraded steps in a moulded architrave with consoles. The elevation is adorned with string coursing, a frieze containing guilloche, moulded cornices, balustrading and square-headed windows

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

South Front of a new Design for Thomas Brown Esq^r at Aikenhead / (verso) (in pencil) North Front / 2

Signed and dated

6/3/1777
Adelphi March 6^& 1777~

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a ruled border on laid paper (521x310)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Rough design for the north front of a two-storey, five-bay house with a hipped roof, and flanking stable blocks terminating in pavilions linked by a loggia. The central three bays of the house project forward to form an arcaded ground-floor porch and a pedimented first floor with a balustrade. The elevation is adorned with string coursing, square-headed windows, and oculi. There is a pencil sketch for a pedimented window in one of the pavilions

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 1
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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