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[17] Alternative design for a block of ten terraced houses, 1785
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/46
Purpose
[17] Alternative design for a block of ten terraced houses, 1785
Aspect
Plan of the bedchamber (second) storey and elevation of the principal façade of a block of ten four-storey terraced houses, on the same plan as Adam volume 38/45, but to an alternative decorative scheme, with the same shop windows within relieving arches, but the basement is not rusticated. The first-storey doors and windows are behind an arcade, but the second- and third-storey windows are not behind a colonnade. The central nine bays project to form a central block, with further projecting end bays, surmounted by attics containing Diocletian windows and pediments, and instead of sculpture to either side there are three-bay width pediments
Scale
bar scale of 7/10 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for Ten houses proposed to be Built in Lieth (sic) Street Edinburgh (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / with a Terrace and Shops under them (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / a fair copy of / this send to Edin / 12t. July 1785 (verso) [cropped] of Drawings of Houses near the Register office / [cropped] to George Home Esqe. 12t. July 1785
Signed and dated
- 1785
datable to 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (733 x 507)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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