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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 48/2

Purpose

[7] 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 an eleven-bay end block articulated by Corinthian columns and pilasters with a projecting attic storey flanking the central three bays, and a rusticated ground floor. There is a flier which shows an alternative to this design with the central three bays forming a raised attic storey flanked by chimney stacks and balustrading. The adjacent three bays of the terrace has a first-floor Venetian window and columns separating the ground floor shop front. The entire building has a mixture of square-headed windows with plain and moulded surrounds, some with pediments and consoles, and doors with fanlights, and is adorned with enclosed rosettes, strigillated panel with a festooned cartouche, moulded cornices and balustrading

Scale

bar scale 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Glasgow Design / (in another hand) Elevation of the north side of Stirling Square with Sections shewing[sic] the hights[sic] of the Stories in the Houses on the East & West sides / Vault / Lodging / Shop / Warehouse / Lodging / Bedroom

Signed and dated

1792
datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink on laid paper (699x289)

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.

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