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[5] Design for a house, 1770, as executed
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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.
Survey of London, 1960, pl. 186a
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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