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  • image SM Adam volume 37/47

Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/47

Purpose

[4] Design for the principal elevation of a castle-style building, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-to-four storey castle over a half-sunk basement, with a series of circular, square and canted-bay towers. In the centre are three bays within relieving arches with a perron staircase. The entire elevation is adorned with string coursing, square-headed windows, arched windows, crosses, oculi, hood moulding, machicolated cornices, and crenelations

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the Principal front of Cardiff Castle One of the Seats of the Right Honble Lord Viscount Mountstewart / (verso) 1 / Lord Mount Stuart

Signed and dated

  • 22/4/1777
    Adelphi / May 22d 1777~

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (820x384)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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