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[7] Finished drawing for a principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/15
Purpose
[7] Finished drawing for a principal elevation of a building, 1792, unexecuted
Aspect
Principal elevation of a three-storey building over a half-sunk basement, with five-bay projecting ends. The main building has an arcaded ground floor with three stepped entrances with fanlights above, a central first-floor tripartite window within a recessed arch, and a pedestal with an urn at roof level. The flanking ends have rusticated ground floors with giant Ionic columns supporting pediments over the first and second floors with a balustrade above and to the first floor. There are a mixture of square-headed windows in plain and moulded surrounds and within recessed arches as well as tripartite windows
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of the Front proposed to be erected by Mess Todd & Shortridge, on the South side of Georges Square / Glasgow / (in pencil) Ballusters[sic] at A & B [ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ ] [_ _ _ _]/ (verso) 7 / number 7 / (in a different hand) Messrs Todd & Shortridge Glasgow / George’s Square
Signed and dated
- 18/12/1792
Albemarle Street / 18. Decembr. 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (957x606)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Watermark
Footed P
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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