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[8] Design for a section through a house, 1780, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 48/69
Purpose
[8] Design for a section through a house, 1780, unexecuted
Aspect
Axial section through a two-storey house, over a half-sunk basement, with a porte-cochere on one side, and a ground-floor balcony at the other end. The house has a hipped roof with a balustraded parapet around a central rooflight over a circular principal stair, flanked by rooms with vaults in the basement
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
(In the hand of William Adam) Section through Stanage house the Seat of Thomas Johnes Esqr / (verso) No 4 / No 4
Signed and dated
- 1780
datable to 1780
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (537x387)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
J KOOL surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 29
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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