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  • image SM Adam volume 29/131

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/131

Purpose

[5] Design showing the principal front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (northwest) front of a three-and-a-half-storey, five-bay house, with a hipped roof, and a central three-bay bow extending the full-height of the building, and with a segmental conical roof, and with a central arched door, flanked by windows, with additional windows on the ground storey to either side, and above there are windows in the first storey surmounted by half-height windows on the mezzanine and attic storeys

Scale

bar scale of 1 4/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

North West Front of a House for the Duke of Ancaster (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 2

Signed and dated

  • 19/07/1773
    19 July 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (436 x 455)

Hand

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

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
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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