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  • image SM Adam volume 42/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/54

Purpose

[3] Survey drawing for the house, c1765

Aspect

Elevation of a four-storey, five-bay terraced house with a pitched roof. There are two doors on the ground storey, one of which is central and gives access to the house, and is ornamented with Ionic pilasters, and the other door, which is in the left-hand end bay and gives access to the warehouse, is unornamented. The central window on the first floor is surmounted by a small pediment, and there is a pencil-drawn chimney stack on the left-hand side of the sheet

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Mr Rogers of London (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • c1765
    datable to c1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (327 x 281)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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