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[4] Design for the house, 1773, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 44/39
Purpose
[4] Design for the house, 1773, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, surmounted by a wide central stack, with the central three bays projecting, and surmounted by a pediment, and the whole resting on a half sunk basement, with tapering external stairs leading to a central door in the form of Serliana articulated by Doric columns on first storey, with a central window flanked by niches on the second storey, and with a central half-height window flanked by enclosed paterae on the third storey
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Principal Front of a House for Richard Oswald Esqr / at Cavens
Signed and dated
- August 1773
Adelphi 3 August / 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (274 x 333)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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