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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/94

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the principal elevation of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey house with a hipped roof, with flanking two-storey links terminating in pavilions with hipped roofs, with single-storey screen walls with gates to enclosed courts with rusticated piers. The main house has a rusticated ground floor and a portico with Tuscan columns supporting a frieze with triglyphs and circles in the metopes. There are giant pilasters supporting a pediment over the central bay, with a Venetian window within a relieving arch to the first floor, and a continuous frieze with guilloche moulding above. The pavilions are adorned with tripartite arched windows within broken-base pediments flanked by niches and blind oculi. The entire elevation is adorned with a continuous moulded string course, balustrade and cornice above and below the first floor

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal front of a New Design for William Douglass[sic] Esqr near Newton Stewart Galloway shewing the body of the House, the Wings & Corridores / and the entrance to the two Courts of Offices with some dimensions / (verso) 1 / 1 / William Douglas Esqr Newton Stewart in Galloway / 8 Plans [_ _ _] 3 elevations 3 Plans 1 Section / one Plan of moot / from no 4

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    Robt. Adam Architect 1787.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (706x370)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman / W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 24
King, 2001, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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