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[7] Design showing the side (southwest) front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 29/129
Purpose
[7] Design showing the side (southwest) front for the house, 1773, executed with alterations
Aspect
Elevation of the side (southwest) front of a three-storey, three-bay house, with a hipped roof, and a rusticated basement, with half-height windows in the ground and attic storeys, and with full-height windows surmounted by lintels ornamented with roundels on the first storey, and with a fluted string course between the first and second storeys
Scale
bar scale of 1 4/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
South West / for the Duke of Ancaster (all in the hand of William Adam) / Cornice / String A (in pencil) / A (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 19/07/1773
19 July 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (275 x 303)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
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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