[11] Finished drawing for the house, date range: 1762-80, unexecuted

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  - Eyton House, Ayton, Berwickshire (?): unexecuted designs for a house for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1762-80 (12)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/10

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for the house, date range: 1762-80, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal front of a three-storey, five-bay central block, with a hipped, balustraded roof, and rusticated basement, and curved external steps leading to the top of a three-bay arcaded loggia, supporting a three-bay Corinthian portico and pediment, and flanked by Venetian windows within relieving arches in the end bays on the first storey. The central block is flanked by one-storey, five-bay, rusticated, balustraded links, each containing a blind arcade, with a central door, and two-and-a-half-storey, five-bay pavilions, with hipped roofs, rusticated basements, with an arcade of relieving arches in the ground storey, with the central three bays slightly projecting, and supporting a three-bay portico of Ionic pilasters, and a small pitched roof

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The Seat of The Earl of Bath (in the hand of William Adam) Bute (Eyton) (in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton)

Signed and dated

1762-1780
date range: 1762-80

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (648 x 466)

Hand

Adam office hand, with additions to inscriptions in the hand of William Adam, additions to inscriptions in the hand of A.T. Bolton

Watermark

PVL

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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