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  • image SM Adam volume 35/36

Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/36

Purpose

[8] Design for the west elevation of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

West elevation of the flank side of a three-storey house over a half-sunk basement, with a porte-cochere with a balustrade supported by Tuscan columns on one side, a balustraded perron staircase on the other side, and an adjoining three-bay pavilion in the foreground. The house has a Venetian window on the principal floor and a Giant Ionic pilaster to the corner of the upper floors. The pavilion has an arcaded ground floor and a broken-base pediment to the upper floors. The basement is rusticated and there is a moulded cornice across the entire elevation

Scale

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

Inscribed

Elevation of the West end of House

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (275x194)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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