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[3] Finished drawing for a group of terraces and corn market, 1793, executed in part
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/12
Purpose
[3] Finished drawing for a group of terraces and corn market, 1793, executed in part
Aspect
Elevation of two four-storey terraces flanking a three-storey domed building. The central building has a two-storey, three-bay front with a central Greek Doric columned entrance within an apse, flanked by pedimented windows with rinceau panels and reclining figures above, as well as the Glasgow coat of arms. The dome has lunette windows and a festooned frieze. The flanking terraces are five-bays wide, with projecting outerbays with rusticated ground floors and tripartite openings with fanlights, and giant first-floor colum and pilaster pairs with fluted capitals flanking windows within a recessed arch, and medallions on the floor above. There are continuous moulded cornices above the ground, second and third floors as well as continuous string coursing across the entire elevation. These flanking terraces are followed by seven-bay blocks with pilastered ground floors with arched porches
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Elevation of College Street Buildings towards the High Street with the View of a Building in Shuttle Street at the West end of College Street for a Corn and Meal Market. / (and in the hand of William Adam) at Glasgow (underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 27/2/1793
Albemarle Street / 27.h Febry 1793
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including sepia and Payne’s grey within a ruled border on laid paper (1307x472)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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