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SM Adam volume 42/34


Elevation of a house with a five-bay, two-storey central block, set over a three quarters-sunk basement, and with a pitched roof shown alternately with balustrading or a pediment across the full breadth. The central block has a central door, behind a Doric portico supporting a pediment, as well as a string of guilloche between the ground and first storeys, and the bays are articulated by rough pencil-drawn giant Ionic columns or pilasters. The central block is flanked by two-storey wings with hipped roofs. In the ground storey of each wing is a three-bay Doric bow, behind which is a window flanked by niches or arched windows. The bow supports a tablet of festoons, and above is a Venetian window. The Venetian window on the left-hand side is supported by Doric columns and moulded along the top, while the Venetian window to the right-hand side is plain, and ornamented only with a keystone. In each wing, the whole is enclosed within a giant relieving arch, and flanked by medallions


bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet


Elevation of a House for Mr Henderson (in the hand of William Adam) and some rough measurements and calculations given in pencil


Adelphi / Janry 24t. 1777.


Pen and pencil on laid paper (533 x 376)


Adam office hand, probably Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam


