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[4] Finished drawings for a villa, c1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 46/101
Purpose
[4] Finished drawings for a villa, c1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Plans of the principal (first), and bed chamber (second) storeys, and elevation of the principal front of a two-and-half-storey, five-bay house, with a pitched roof, and external steps. The central three bays are projecting, and composed of a central door and narrow windows within a portico surmounted by a miniature pediment, and with a tripartite window in the upper register, surmounted by a pediment with an oculus in the tympanum. The house has a central spiral staircase, and a three-bay bow at the rear
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Unknown (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1787
datable to c1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (137 x 225)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Rowan, 1985, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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