[5] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted

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    - George Square, Glasgow: designs for a group of terraces for John Mair (or Maire), and Messrs Todd & Shortridge, 1792, unexecuted (7)
      - Designs for a pair of houses and a warehouse on the north side of George’s Square, 1792, unexecuted (6)

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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 Esq^r. / in Georges Square Glasgow. / To be 29 feet / (verso) 1

Signed and dated

22/2/1792
Albemarle Street / 22^d. 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

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.

Level

Drawing

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