[32] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

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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)
    - Variant designs for stables and offices, 1786-87, unexecuted (14)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/43

Purpose

[32] Design for a group of buildings, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey circular stable range with buttresses and a conical roof, flanked by single-storey blocks and a continuous wall. The elevation is adorned with relieving arches, square headed windows, Diocletian windows and oculi as well as a moulded cornice and machicolated cornices

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

77 / (verso) no 1

Signed and dated

31/3/1787
Albemarle St / 31.^st March 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (482x177)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Notes

This drawing appears to be a paired-back version of an earlier variant design shown in SM Adam volume 35/46.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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