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[6] Design for an unknown terraced house, 1772, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 32/54
Purpose
[6] Design for an unknown terraced house, 1772, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house, with a balustraded hipped roof, a rusticated ground storey, and the end bays slightly projecting, with a door in the right-hand ground storey end bays, and with balustraded windows in the central three bays on the first floor, flanked by niches in the end bays, and with a fluted frieze across the central three bays, and a frieze of enclosed rosettes across the end bays
Scale
bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation of a House for Lord Ducie (in the hand of William Adam and feintly underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1772
datable to 1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (334 x 423)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 54
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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