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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/177

Purpose

[1] Design for a rustic cottage, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay cottage, with a hipped thatched roof and two chimney stacks, and a single-storey thatched bow on each side; with a central door behind a single-storey, single-bay portico of tree-trunk columns, supporting a thatched pediment; and flanked by windows with glazing bars on the left-hand side, and lattice windows above and on the right-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front of a Cottage for Samuel Smith Esqr and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 16/12/1780
    16 Decr 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (251 x 273)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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