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  • image SM Adam volume 10/43

Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/43

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a terrace, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Sketch elevation of a three-storey building with a projecting three-bay centre and ends. The central three-bays have a ground floor arcade, and giant columns supporting a pediment over the upper floors. The connecting parts of the building and the projecting ends are of two different designs. One has a columned ground-floor with fan-lit openings and the central three bays of the end within a relieving arch. The other side has a screen of columns with square-headed openings, and a tripartite first-floor window with a fanlight within a relieving arch with a tablet above in the central end bay

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1792
    datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (417x124)

Hand

Probably
James Adam

Literature

King, 2001, pp. 68, 75, 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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