[7] Finished drawing for a 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)
      - Design for a terrace of buildings for the south side of George’s Square, 1792, unexecuted (1)

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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. Decemb^r. 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (957x606)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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