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  • image SM Adam volume 29/107

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/107

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for the house, N.D. unexecuted

Aspect

Section through a house, with a hipped roof, and composed of a barrel-vaulted cellar, two storeys, and a garret

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Lord Frederick Campbells House at Petersham (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 3

Signed and dated

  • N.D. These drawings might have been made at any time between Adam and Campbell's acquaintance in the early 1760s and Adam's death in 1792.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (452 x 272)

Hand

Adam office hand. Additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by cartouche surmounted by fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references 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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