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  • image SM Adam volume 34/86

Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/86

Purpose

[11] Design for a house, c1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, a string course between the ground and first storeys, and a central front door, flanked by engaged Doric columns supporting a lintel ornamented with a Doric frieze

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Elevation of a House / For The Honble Mr. Baron Grant and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • c1771
    datable to c1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (244 x 350)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 72
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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