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Reference number

SM Adam volume 7/153

Purpose

[13] Preliminary design for a rectangular house, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough plan of a house with a three-bay central block, with a portico across the principal front, flanked by five-bay recessed links, and two- by five-bay pavilion with central three-bay bows across the side fronts, and a rough part plan of another storey of the same house
  • image SM Adam volume 7/153

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sr James Lowther (in pen) and some measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (185 x 177)

Hand

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

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 131
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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