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[4] Preliminary design for the principal front of the house, 1776, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/73
Purpose
[4] Preliminary design for the principal front of the house, 1776, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a three-storey, nine-bay house, with a shallow hipped and balustraded roof, and a central three-bay pediment, and with the end two bays and central three bays projecting, with single-storey, three-bay balustraded bows across the end bays, and across the central three bays is an unusual five-bay lotus capital portico, with angled and pedimented end bays
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
South Front (in pencil) / Newby the Seat of William Weddell Esqr (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 09/11/1776
Adelphi / Novr 9t 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (598 x 495)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
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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