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[3] Design showing an elevation of the side (north or south) front for the building, 1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/39
Purpose
[3] Design showing an elevation of the side (north or south) front for the building, 1775, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of the side front, of a two-storey, five-bay building, with a hipped roof, and a rusticated, arcaded ground storey, with the central three bays projecting, with a central Venetian window on the first storey, flanked by columns supporting a pediment. Beside these are urn-filled niches, surmounted by rectangular panels containing festoons, and beyond in the end bays are pedimented windows. The principal and rear fronts are shown in profile to either side, with the porticoes and pediments shown in profile
Scale
bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Elevation for the two side Fronts of the Theatre and Market Place at St Edmund's Bury (extensively underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 12/01/1775
Adelphi 12 Janry 1775.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (734 x 516)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, 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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