[4] Design for the south elevation of a terrace of buildings, 1792, unexecuted

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    - Ingram, John and Campbell (now Cochrane) Streets, Glasgow: unexecuted designs for a group of buildings across three streets for Messrs Muirhead and Dunmore, 1792 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/64

Purpose

[4] Design for the south 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, same as SM Adam volume 10/140. The connecting parts of the building have a ground floor arcade with stepped entrances. There are a mixture of square-headed windows, oculi, tripartite windows, windows within pedimented surrounds with consoles and windows within relieving arches

Scale

to a scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the South front of Messrs Muirhead & Dunmores Buildings in Ingram Street Glasgow / (verso) Mess.^r Murhead[sic] & Dunmore’s Building for Glasgow

Signed and dated

2/11/1792
Albemarle Street / 2^d. Novem^r. 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (943x536)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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