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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/96

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for the side elevation of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Side elevation of a three-storey house with a hipped roof and a three-storey rear bow with a domed roof, with a two-storey quadrant link on one side terminating in a pavilion with a hipped roof, with an adjoing enclosed court with columned stores with lean-to roofs. The rear bow has a rusticated ground floor, and there is a continuous frieze with guilloche moulding and moulded cornice across the entire house. Across the entire elevation, there is a mixture of square-headed and arched windows, as well as a string course above the ground floor and a variety of chimney stacks. The quadrant link is adorned with pilasters, niches and blind oculi. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the South end of House and Offices / (in a different hand) for William Douglass[sic] Esqr / near Newton Stewart Galloway

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and yellow within a double-ruled border on laid paper (524x322)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

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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