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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/67

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the rear elevation of a house, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear elevation of a three-storey house with a hipped roof with a balustraded parapet. The central bay is bowed at the ground floor with a balcony above, and articulated by two, giant Ionic columns with enclosed rosettes above. Each bay has an opening in a moulded surround, the central one is pedimented, with Diocletian windows above. The elevation is adorned with string coursing, a guilloche frieze and a dentilled and moulded cornice

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

A Design for the back front of Stanage House – (and in the hand of William Adam) Thomas Johnes Esqr / (verso) No 2

Signed and dated

  • 20/3/1780
    Adelphi / 20 March 1780 -

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (590x445)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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