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SM Adam volume 45/29

Purpose

[4] Record drawing for domestic offices, c1770-73, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay, pedimented central block, with the lower register arcaded, and with oculus windows in the upper register, and a clock in the tympanum of the pediment. The central block is flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, one-bay links, and one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay pavilions, with pyramidal roofs, one of which is surmounted by a lantern, and the central door is set within a relieving arch, and surmounted by a lunette window, and with feint pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Offices for John Stewart Esqr at Mitcham Surry (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • c1770-73
    date range: c1770-73

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (559 x 406)

Hand

Adam office hand, with additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
King, 1992, Volume I, p. 386, Volume II, p. 223
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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