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[3] Alternative design for a house, 1772, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/19
Purpose
[3] Alternative design for a house, 1772, unexecuted
Aspect
Alternative elevation of the south front of a two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house, with a balustraded, hipped roof, with the pediments of four windows shown behind the balustrade, and with the central bay projecting, and containing a tripartite door behind a single-storey Ionic portico, supporting a pediment, reached by a straight staircase, and the door is surmounted by a tripartite window, and ornamented with a cable moulding strong course, and a frieze of fluting and enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
South Front of Stockwood House the Seat of John Crawley Esqr (verso) 2
Signed and dated
- April 1772
Adelphi April 25th. 1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (538 x 381)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY
Level
Drawing
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