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[4] Design for a new house, c1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 44/50
Purpose
[4] Design for a new house, c1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a house, with a three-storey, three-bay central block, with a hipped roof, and the end bays projecting, and with balustraded windows on the first storey, relieving arches over the windows on the ground storey, and a central tripartite entrance surmounted by a fan, and the central block is flanked by single-storey, three-bay links, with central doors, and one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay pavilions, with bay fronts, and conical roofs
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
1st Design of a House for Isaack Wilkinson Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- c1775
datable to c1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (548 x 384)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
IV surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
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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