[7] Design for the front elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Balavil House (formerly Balaville), Highlands: designs for additions to a house for James Macpherson, 1790, executed to a variant design (14)
    - Designs for alterations to a house, 1790, executed to a variant design (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/73

Purpose

[7] Design for the front elevation of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with two-storey, single-bay ends. There is a central, single-storey enclosed porch with a window within a recessed arch, adorned with enclosed rosettes with a roof over the flanking bays supported by Tuscan columns. The central first-floor window is set within a pedimented surround with consoles. Across the entire elevation are square-headed windows and a moulded cornice

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the North front of Balaville House / (verso) 2

Signed and dated

1790
Janry 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (472x271)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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