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[7] Design for the house and offices, 1776, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/81
Purpose
[7] Design for the house and offices, 1776, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the profile (east) of a five-bay house, with a hipped roof and a chimneystack, and with a rusticated principal storey and with pilasters at the corners of the upper storeys, and showing the section of an adjacent two-storey link above a half-sunk basement, with a Doric portico on the garden (north) front
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
East End of the House for Alexander Spiers Esqr near Glasgow (for Alexander Spiers Esqr near Glasgow in the hand of William Adam) / 83 (in pencil) with some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1776
datable to 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (470 x 411)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam, addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
3
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 395
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 395
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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