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  • image SM Adam volume 48/68

Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/68

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a section through a house, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section through a three-storey house with a hipped roof with a balustraded parapet around a rooflight over a central circular staircase. The different colour washes denote the building fabric

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Section through the Stanage house the Seat of Thomas Johnes Esqr / (verso) No 3 / No 3

Signed and dated

  • 1780
    datable to 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow within a ruled border on laid paper (590x444)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly 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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