[5] Preliminary design for the south front of a house, 1787, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/222

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for the south front of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

South front elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house with flanking links terminating in three-bay, three-storey pavilions, all over a half-sunk basement. The main house has principal-floor Venetian windows with a central perron staircase, and Giant Ionic pilasters to the floors above. The ground floor windows are repeated in the flanking links, with a balustraded parapet and pyramidal roofs. The pavilions are pedimented with an arcaded ground floor

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (437x145)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Literature

King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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