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  • image SM Adam volume 43/49

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/49

Purpose

[5] Design for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the garden front as Adam volume 43/54, but with the ground storey of the central block rusticated

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

House for Sir Thomas Ackland Baronet / in Devonshire (all in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (744 x 518)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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