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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/39

Purpose

[6] Design for the principal elevation of a house, 1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal elevation of a three-storey house with flanking wings, same as SM Adam volume 36/94

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches 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 Courts of Offices / N. B. The wings & Corridores / are not rusticated in the originals

Signed and dated

  • 1788
    datable to 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (1112x480)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

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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