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  • image SM Adam volume 40/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/57

Purpose

[33] Finished drawing for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground floor of a five-bay house with colonnaded bows on the front and rear, and canted bays on the sides, and with a feint pencil-drawn elevation above

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevations and Plans of a Parsonage House at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1760
    datable to c1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (272 x 408)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoît Dewez, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 88
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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