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[5] Finished drawing for a house, showing the garden front, ND, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/95
Purpose
[5] Finished drawing for a house, showing the garden front, ND, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the garden front of a two-storey house set over a half-sunk basement, and with a balustraded hipped roof. The central three bays form a bow behind a Doric portico, and with a central door on the ground storey accessed by tapering external stairs; and the bow is flanked by a single bay, containing arched windows on the ground storey, surmounted by a string, and with a half-height window on the first storey; and to either side a single-bay projection from the side front is visible
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of a House for Captain Simpson (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Captain Simpson (in pencil in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1787-94
date range: 1787-94
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash, sepia wash and cerulean blue wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (428 x 288)
Hand
Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 136
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 136
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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