[4] Design for the second storey of a house, ND, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Harley Street, number 1 (now 2) and Cavendish Square number 16, London, designs for exterior and interior alterations for James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, ND (9)
      - Designs and unfinished designs for alterations to a house, ND (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/91

Purpose

[4] Design for the second storey of a house, ND, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of the second storey of an irregularly-shaped building, with a principal five-by-five-bay block, with a four-by-three-bay wing to the left and a two-by-two-bay wing to the rear. The principal block has a central passageway from left to right, which has a staircase and links rooms of the front, rear, and left-hand wing. It contains bedrooms, closets and nurseries. The left-hand wing has an additional staircase, bedrooms, a dressing room and a water closet

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the two pair story of Hopetoun House (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) in Harley Street / Bedchamber / Closet / Closet / Bedchamber / Passag[e] / Nursery / Maids rooms / Lady Georgian's [_ _ _ _ _] Bedroom / Young Ladies Dressing room / Lady Ann Hope's Bed Chamber / Lady Hopetowns Maids Bedroom / Nursery and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper ( x )

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

This to be Placed Twentieth (in the hand of William Adam, brown ink)

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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