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[23] Design showing an elevation of the garden front, 1777, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 37/24
Purpose
[23] Design showing an elevation of the garden front, 1777, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of the garden front of a three-and-a-half-storey house, over a half-sunk basement with a central thermal or Diocletian window of depressed form, and with the central three bays forming a bow, with the principal storey containing an arcade within relieving arches, accessed by curving staircases, and the bow is flanked by single-bay circular towers, and surmounted by an additional storey, crenellations, and this is flanked by three crenellated bays, and a single projecting end bay to each side, again with an additional storey and crenellations, and with bartizans (verso) pencil-drawn elevation as recto but with a conical roof over the central tower, and pitched roofs between the bartizans
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Fleurs Castle for His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh / last Design (all in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 1 / 1
Signed and dated
- 15/11/1777
Adelphi 15th/ Novr. 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (548 x 367)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
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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