[6] Design for the principal elevation and part-sections of a terrace, 1792, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Glasgow
    - Stirling Square (now Blackfriars Street), Glasgow: designs for a group of streets and a square for William Stirling & Sons, 1792, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/1

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation and part-sections of a terrace, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Part-elevation and section of a three-storey terrace over a basement, with a nine-bay end block articulated by Corinthian columns and pilasters with a central portico supporting a pediment, and a rusticated ground floor. The adjacent four bays of the terrace have columns flanking arched openings on the ground floor. The terrace is adorned with a mixture of square-headed and arched windows, fanlights, enclosed rosettes, medallions, fluted friezes, panels, moulded cornices and balustrading

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Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Glasgow Designs / (in another hand) Elevation of the East side of Stirling Square with Sections shewing[sic] the Hights[sic] of the Houses with No. & So. Sides, / and the opening of Stirling Street leading into the High Street. –

Signed and dated

1792
datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink on laid paper (702x299)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

W surmounted by shield and fleur de lis

Literature

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

Level

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