[2] Design for the elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1793, executed in part

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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 38/13

Purpose

[2] Design for the elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1793, executed in part

Aspect

Elevation of a four-storey terrace, with three-bay pedimented sections adorned with medallions, with ground-floor rusticated arcades and windows articulated by giant columns with fluted capitals. The connecting links comprise ground-floor openings flanked by Tuscan columns supporting a moulded cornice, with square-headed windows above. There is a continuous moulded cornice above the second floor and a festooned cartouche over the central bay of the terrace

Scale

to a scale of 1/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the Houses proposed to be erected on each side of College Street, opposite the College of Glasgow. with some dimensions / (in a curator’s hand) See also Vol 48. Plate 7 / Earlier? Unfinished scheme. / unfinished. No date.

Signed and dated

27/2/1793
Albemarle Street / 27.^h Febr’y 1793.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (1086x498)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

Footed P

Notes

This appears to be a design for the principal elevations of the proposed buildings flanking College Street as shown in the plan SM Adam volume 38/14.

Literature

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

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