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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/93

Purpose

[7] Design for a longitudinal section through a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a house comprising a central three-storey block with flanking two-storey links and wings. There is an additional store range at one end at a lower ground level with a lean-to roof. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Body of the House the Wings & Corridores[sic], shewing[sic] the / inside of the Kitchen Court / (and in the hand of William Adam) for _ Sproul Esqr with some dimensions / (verso) 3

Signed and dated

  • 13/12/1791
    Edin.r 13. Decembr / 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink on laid paper (475x326)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison

Watermark

Portal & Co

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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