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  • image SM Adam volume 42/5

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/5

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for the addition a kitchen range, 1775-77, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the kitchen range, showing a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay central block, with a pyramidal roof, and a central Venetian window within a relieving arch, and the central block is flanked by two-storey, one-bay towers, with pyramidal roofs, and tripartite windows on the ground storey, and Venetian windows in the upper register

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lord Frederick Campbell at Coombank (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Kitchen front (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1775-1777
    date range: 1775-77

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (453 x 302)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, addition to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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