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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/42

Purpose

[12] Design for the section of a house, 1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section through a house, same as SM Adam volume 36/97

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Body of the House, from West to East, shewing part of the / North Wing and Corridore / (in a different hand) for House for Wm Douglass[sic] Esqr of Newton Douglass[sic] / in Galloway (underwritten in pencil) / N.B No rusticks / in the original / N. B. The scale of the Original drawings was 7 feet of this scale to 10 with some dimensions / (verso) 4

Signed and dated

  • 18/4/1788
    Albemarle Street / 18th April 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (577x473)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges / GR 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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