[17] Finished drawing for the principal front of a house, c.1787, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
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      - Variant designs for a house, c.1787, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/112

Purpose

[17] Finished drawing for the principal front of a house, c.1787, as executed

Aspect

Principal elevation of three-storey, five-bay house with flanking links terminating in pavilions, all over a half-sunk basement. There is a central porte-cochere with a balustrade supported by Tuscan columns, flanked by windows in relieving arches. The flanking links have balustraded parapets and the pavilions have tripartite windows, pyramidal roofs with chimney stacks and weathervanes. The entire elevation is adorned with string coursing and moulded cornices

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

unknown / 45 / (in pencil) Unknown / 45th

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (238x136)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Rowan, 1985, pp. 61-65
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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