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[4] Preliminary design for the house, 1768
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/30
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design for the house, 1768
Aspect
Section of a three-storey house, with a pitched roof, and with the ground storey slightly projecting on the principal front, and supporting an engaged Ionic column
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section across Mr Murray's house / at Phillipshaugh (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / James Adam 1768 (in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton)
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (517 x 356)
Hand
James Adam, and additional inscriptions in pencil by A.T. Bolton, addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
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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