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  • image SM Adam volume 30/63

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

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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