[43] Design for a cottage, 1788, unexecuted

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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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/52

Purpose

[43] Design for a cottage, 1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a single-storey, three-bay cottage comprising two L-shaped rooms with chimneypieces in the central partition. The elevation is rusticated and adorned with quoining, a tripartite porch divided by rustic columns, and a mutuled cornice with a hipped roof above. There is fencing enclosing a yard around the cottage

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) Design of a Cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay / at Kirkdale in Galloway / (verso) no 10 / The Plans go in 10th into the Book

Signed and dated

1/12/1788
Dec 1. 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (295x473)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, 2001, p. 258
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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