[2] Design for a house, 1786-90, unexecuted

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  - Wyreside Hall, Nether Wyresdale, Dolphinholme, Lancashire: alternative designs for alterations to the house for John Fenton Cawthorne, 1786-92 (6)
    - Preliminary design and design for a castle-style house, 1786-90, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/99

Purpose

[2] Design for a house, 1786-90, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 1/63, but with a flier over the top of the central three bays, underneath which the parapet is ornamented with cross windows projecting in a stepped formation, surmounted by the clock tower, and with a rough pencil-drawn profile elevation in the top right-hand corner

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Design of a house for / John Fenton Cawthorn Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Fenton Cawthorne Esqr / 4

Signed and dated

1786-90
datable to 1786-90

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (525 x 350; flier 155 x 184)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)

Watermark

WHA[TMAN]

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
Rowan, 1985, p. 82
Rowan, 1988, p. 100
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 165
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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