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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/208

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the elevation of a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a three-storey, three-bay house with a single-storey link terminating in a two-storey wing with an adjoining single-storey wall. The house has a ground-floor portico with a first-floor tripartite window within a relieving arch, with a balustrade, and the elevation is adorned with three rows of string coursing, and a hipped roof with a weathervane. The link is balustraded with an opening in a relieving arch and the wing has tripartite windows on both floors

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1791
    datable to 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (209x139)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison

Verso

Pencil sketch of part of a floor plan showing two apsidal rooms

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

King, 2001, p. 128
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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