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[5] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 32/93
Purpose
[5] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted
Aspect
Principal elevation of a three-storey, seven-bay building over a half-sunk basement, with a hipped roof. The outer bays project forwards with paired giant Ionic columns over the first and second floors with Venetian windows and oculi in panels with festoons, with griffins above. The ground floor is rusticated and there are a mixture of arched, tripartite, and square headed openings as well as a continuous first-floor string course and balustrade, and there is a continuous moulded cornice above the second floor
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation of the North front of Two houses with Warehouses proposed to be built by John Maire Esqr. / in Georges Square Glasgow. / To be 29 feet / (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- 22/2/1792
Albemarle Street / 22d. Febry 1792.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (504x327)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
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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