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[2] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/106
Purpose
[2] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the principal front of a four-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof and two chimney stacks; with a half-sunk basement and a half-height attic, and the central bay slightly projecting, and with a central door on the first storey, surmounted by a fan light, set within a single-bay Spalatro order porch with a Doric frieze, and accessed by straight exterior stairs, and this is surmounted by a pedimented door on the second storey, with the porch below forming a balustraded balcony; and the central block is flanked by two-storey, single-bay pedimented wings, with tripartite windows on the ground storey, and Palladian windows on the first storey
Scale
bar scale of 2 ¼ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation of a House for Mr Powell (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- 1779
datable to 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (591 x 443)
Hand
Adam office hand, possible Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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