[5] Design for the principal elevation of a building, 1791, unexecuted

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  - Linthouse, Glasgow: unexecuted designs for a house for James Spreull, 1791, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/91

Purpose

[5] Design for the principal elevation of a building, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey house with flanking links, wings, and single-storey walls, similar to SM Adam volume 1/208. The main house is three bays wide with a hipped roof and a rusticated ground floor and central portico with Tuscan columns supporting a balustrade to the first floor, with a square-headed window within a moulded surround and an oculus above, within a recessed arch. There is a first-floor balustrade which repeats on the single-storey links, and the terminating wings have ground-floor tripartite windows with Diocletian windows above, and hipped roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Elevation of a new Design for – Sproule[sic] Esq.^r proposed to be built / at Linthouse near Glasgow / Extends 130 feet / (verso) Mr Sproull near Glasgow / from Edin^r. 22^d [_ _ _ _] [_ _ ] / [_ _ _] [_ _] 6

Signed and dated

13/12/1791
Edin^r 13 Decemb^r / 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (476x282)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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