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  • image SM Adam volume 44/14

Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/14

Purpose

[5] Design for a house, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, four-bay terraced house, with a hipped roof, string courses of fluting and guilloche, balustraded windows on the first storey, and a door in the third bay of the ground storey, with the door flanked by Corinthian pilasters of engaged columns, supporting a lintel ornamented with ox skulls connected by festoons

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl of Buckinghamshire for Mr Hobart / House St James's Square (all in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given (verso) 1

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (495 x 483)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
Survey of London, 1960, pl. 186a
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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