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  • image SM Adam Volume 49/12

Reference number

SM Adam Volume 49/12

Purpose

[64] Unfinished record drawing for the principal front of the house, c1785-86, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, seven-bay building, with a balustraded, hipped roof. The basement contains rectangular windows, and a central door, all within reliving arches, and the windows on the first floor are pediments, and there is a portico of four giant Ionic columns supporting a pediment across the central three bays

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For the Duke of Cumberland Pall Mall

Signed and dated

  • 1785-1786
    date range: 1785-1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (328 x 472)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 44
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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