[19] Finished drawing for an elevation and section through a house, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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)
    - Variant designs for a house, 1787, unexecuted (19)
      - Variant designs for a house, c.1787, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/115

Purpose

[19] Finished drawing for an elevation and section through a house, ND, as executed

Aspect

Lower: Flank elevation of a three-storey house over a half-sunk basement with a porte-cochere with a balustrade supported by Tuscan columns to the front, and a rear canted bay with balustraded steps to the rear, with an adjoining pavilion and half-sunk offices in the foreground. The house has a Venetian window on the principal floor and there is string coursing across the entire elevation Upper: Axial section through a three-storey house over a basement with a balustraded porte-cochere at one end and external steps over a vaulted room at the other. The house has a principal staircase lit by a roof light, and there is a room with an apse at one end and a continuous frieze, as well as other rooms with chimneypieces. The different coloured washes denote the building materials

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Unknown / 46 / (in pencil) Unknown / 46th

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (134x235)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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