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[16] Design for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/71
Purpose
[16] Design for a castle-style house (3rd scheme), 1773, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Elevation of the garden (south) front of a three-and-a-half-storey, seven-bay crenellated house, with hipped roof, and a half-sunk basement. With the central five bays slightly projecting; with a pepper-pot bartizans at the top corners of the projection and the overall block; and with full-height projections to either side
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Back Front. of a Castle for Mr Baron ure at Caldwell (of a Castle for Mr Baron ure at Caldwell in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 2
Signed and dated
- 08/05/1773
Adelphi May 8t. 1773.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (651 x 485)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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