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[6] Preliminary design for the addition of service wings to the house, 1776, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/4
Purpose
[6] Preliminary design for the addition of service wings to the house, 1776, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of the entrance to the kitchen court, showing a one-storey, three-bay, rusticated link wall, with a central aedicular door with a fan-light, and flanked by square-headed, urn-filled niches, and the link is flanked by two-storey, one-bay, pediment pavilions, with domed roofs, rusticated basements containing a Diocletian window, and each with a balustraded, aedicular window within a reliving arch in the upper register, flanked by medallions
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Front of the back Entry showing the front of the Wings at Coombank / For Lord Frederick Campbell (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- May 1776
Adelphi May 18 / 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (533 x 380)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Verso
Pencil-drawn plan of the kitchen court, with a part plan, and part wall elevation
Watermark
GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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