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[9] Design for a section through a house, 1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/34
Purpose
[9] Design for a section through a house, 1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Longitudinal section from east to west through a three-storey house, with flanking links with pyramidal roofs terminating in pavilions, over a basement, with adjoining basement offices adorned with putti on dolphins. Some of the rooms in the basement are vaulted and the central room on the principal floor has apsidal ends with consoled door surrounds, along with a library in the east link with a vaulted ceiling supported by columns, and another room in the west link with a coved ceiling. There are chimneypieces across the rooms in the upper floors of the house. The different colour washes denote the building materials
Scale
bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section through the House from East to West. (and in the hand of William Adam) of Sir Samuel Hannay Bart / at Kirkdale in Galloway ~ (underwritten in pencil) with some dimensions
Signed and dated
- 1787
datable to 1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (536x306)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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