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  • image SM Adam volume 42/2

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/2

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the addition of a kitchen range, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the house from inside the central courtyard, showing a three-storey, three-bay central block, with a pyramidal roof and central octagonal lantern, and with relieving arches on the ground and first storeys, and with the central bay slightly projecting, and with an aedicular window on the first storey, surmounted by a rectangular panel, and surmounted by a small pediment. The central block is flanked by three-and-a-half-storey, one-bay towers, one of which has pencil-drawn quoins, and rectangular festoon panels. In front of these wings are sections of two-storey links, and with pencil-drawn annotations showing domed pavilions instead of towers

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

House for Lord Frederick Campbell at Coombank (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • May 1777
    Adelphi / May 12t 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (595 x 484)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, addition to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
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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