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James Alexander: unexecuted designs for an unknown country house, 1775 (5)

Signed and dated

  • 1775

Notes

Arthur Bolton identified James Alexander as a merchant from Stirling, and otherwise he is unknown. Moreover, it is not known for what location he commissioned Robert Adam to make these designs for a new country house in 1775, which is not known to have been executed.

Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 52, 60; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, p. 135

Frances Sands, 2013

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Contents of James Alexander: unexecuted designs for an unknown country house, 1775 (5)