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  • image SM Adam volume 36/55

Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/55

Purpose

[15] Finished drawing for a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear elevation of a single-storey, five-bay house with a central bow, and flanking wings with front and side bows, all over a half-sunk basement. All the bows are three-bays wide and have conical roofs. The entire elevation is adorned with square-headed windows with sills, cornices with mutules below, a balustraded parapet at roof level of the lodge with chimneystacks at the end of the wings

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) A new Design for a Lodge for the Right Honorable The Earl of Findlater

Signed and dated

  • c.1781
    datable to c.1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (434x226)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 54
King, 2001, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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