[2] Design for alterations to the west front of the house, c1764, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Panmure, Muirdrum, Angus: unexecuted designs for the house and stables for William Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure, c1764 (5)
    - Design for alterations to the west front of the house, c1764, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/32

Purpose

[2] Design for alterations to the west front of the house, c1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (west) front of a three-and-a-half-storey, eleven-bay house, with a half-sunk basement, a pitched, balustraded roof, a rusticated basement, external stairs leading to a central front door, a central five-bay Ionic portico supporting a pediment across the central three bays, and with four-and-a-half-storey end bay towers, with aedicular, balustraded windows on the first floor, and with pitched roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Copy of A New Design for the West Front of the House of Panmure (of Panmure in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

c1764
datable to c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (601 x 439)

Hand

Adam office hand: possibly Agostino Brunias, with additions to the title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Number Nine (in red pen)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
Adam, 2001, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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