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[5] Alternative design for the west elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1792, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/63
Purpose
[5] Alternative design for the west elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1792, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation and part-plan of a three-storey building over a half-sunk basement, with a projecting five-bay centre, and three-bay ends with rusticated ground floors. The central five bays comprise a paired Doric-columned entrance, flanked by windows with fanlights in the outer bays, with medallions on the first floor, and a balustrade above the second floor flanking a pedestal with festooned heraldry surmounted by a griffon. The connecting parts of the building have a ground floor arcade, and there is a continuous moulded cornice across the entire elevation above the ground and second floors. There are a mixture of square-headed windows, oculi, tripartite windows, windows within pedimented surrounds with consoles and windows within relieving arches
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for the West front towards John Street of Messrs. Muirhead and Dunmore’s Buildings. Glasgow / Extends 195. Feet. / Shop / Passage / Shop / Shop / Shop / Shop / Shop / Shop / (verso) 1 / Mess.rs Muirhied[sic] & Dunmore Glasgow
Signed and dated
- 2/11/1792
Albemarle Street / 2d. Novemr. 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including sepia and Payne’s grey within a ruled border on laid paper (948x527)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Watermark
Footed P
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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