[3] Preliminary elevation of the principal front of a building, c.1791-94, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Glasgow Assembly Rooms: designs, c.1791-94, executed in part (10)
    - Designs for the Glasgow Assembly Rooms, c,1791-94, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/44

Purpose

[3] Preliminary elevation of the principal front of a building, c.1791-94, unexecuted

Aspect

Sketch elevation of a two-storey, five-bay building with three-bay flanking links terminating in three-bay blocks. The central three bays project forward with a ground-floor arcade, first-floor pedimented portico, with acroteria. The end blocks contain Venetian windows flanked by niches containing figures, with parapets surmounted by sphinxes. The entire ground floor is rusticated and there are a mixture of Venetian, tripartite, arched and square-headed windows, as well as decorative panels, friezes, cornices, and balustrading

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a Front for the Public Assembly rooms / for Glasgow

Signed and dated

c.1791-94
datable to c.1791-94

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (385x163)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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