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[5] Design showing the principal front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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