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  • image SM Adam volume 32/54

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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