[5] Finished alternative drawing for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Eyton House, Ayton, Berwickshire (?): unexecuted designs for a house for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1762-80 (12)
    - Finished alternative drawings for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/41

Purpose

[5] Finished alternative drawing for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (south-west) front of a two-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped, balustraded roof, and a central three-bay Corinthian portico and pediment, flanked by one-storey, five-bay, Doric colonnaded links, with flat roofs, and two-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay pavilions, with hipped roofs, and the central three bays projecting and surmounted by a pediment

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for a house at Eyton one of the Seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam) underwritten in pencil / The Front of house & Offices / to South West Aspect / Ground raised for the Coach way up to the portico

Signed and dated

N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (533 x 254)

Hand

Unknown eighteenth-century architect, additions to inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 125
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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