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[7] Finished drawing for the rear elevation of a house, 1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/95
Purpose
[7] Finished drawing for the rear elevation of a house, 1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Rear 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 to enclosed courts. The main house has a rusticated ground floor, with a central three-storey, three-bay bow with a domed roof, flanked by tripartite windows within niches to the first floor, with a continuous frieze of guilloche moulding above. Across the entire elevation are a mixture of arched windows, square-headed windows and Diocletian windows, as well as niches, pilasters, blind oculi, a continuous string course below the first floor, and a variety of chimney stacks
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
East front of a new Design for William Douglass[sic] Esq.r near Newton Stewart Galloway with some dimensions / (verso) 2
Signed and dated
- 1787
Robt. Adam Archit. 1787.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (706x320)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
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.
King, 2001, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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