[4] Variant design for the elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1793, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Glasgow
    - High Street, numbers 169-177 & 179-185, and buildings on College Street and Shuttle Street, Glasgow: designs for a group of terraces and a Cornmarket, 1793, executed in part (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/7

Purpose

[4] Variant design for the elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a four-storey terrace, with three-bay pedimented sections adorned with medallions in the tympanums, with rusticated ground-floors and windows articulated by giant columns and pilasters with broadleaf capitals. There is a continuous dentilled cornice above the second floor and a mixture of square-headed windows within plain surrounds and pedimented surrounds with consoles

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Street opposite the College Glasgow

Signed and dated

1793
datable to 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (1060x566)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Notes

This appears to be a variant design for the flank elevations of the proposed buildings as shown in the plan SM Adam volume 38/14, facing onto the High Street.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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