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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.

Level

Drawing

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