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[3] Preliminary design for the house, 1768
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/29
Purpose
[3] Preliminary design for the house, 1768
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a three-storey, nine-bay house, with a hipped roof, and with tripartite windows in the central and end bays of the ground storey, and Venetian windows in the central and end bays of the first storey, and with the central three bays slightly projecting on the ground storey, and supporting a three-bay Ionic portico and pediment, and with all three storeys slightly projecting in the end bays, and with a frieze of fluting and enclosed rosettes. The house is flanked by one-storey, three-bay wings, with a central square-headed, urn-filled niche, flanked by semicircular-headed niches
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Principal Front of a House for John Murray Esqr of Philliphaugh / (and in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton) finished copy signed 'James Adam 1768' / seen this 1930 and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (517 x 361)
Hand
James Adam, and additional inscriptions in pencil by A.T. Bolton
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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