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  • image SM Adam volume 37/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/57

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for the house, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of one side of the garden (north) front of a house as Adam volumes 37/55, 37/52 and 43/132, showing the right-hand side of a four-storey L-shaped block, and a two-storey, four-bay link to the right, connecting with the oval pavilion with a circular tower at each corner

Scale

1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of Barnbougle Castle (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 2

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (488 x 284)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
Tait, 1981, p. 421
Rowan, 1985, p. 98
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 161
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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