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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/140

Purpose

[3] Preliminary perspective elevation of a terrace, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough perspective of part of a three-storey building over a half-sunk basement with a central five-bay feature and three-bay end with rusticated ground floors. The end three bays have giant Ionic columns supporting a pediment over the upper floors flanked by single bays with Ionic pilasters, with a festoon frieze. The connecting parts of the building have a ground-floor screen of columns and there are continuous moulded cornices across the entire elevation above the ground and second floors

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(verso) Ware room / Ware room / Ware room with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1792
    datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (228x183)

Hand

Probably
James Adam

Verso

Finished drawing for a plan of an individual shop comprising three warerooms, a staircase and small oval-shaped room to the rear

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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