[14] Alternative design for the second storey of a building, 1766, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/33

Purpose

[14] Alternative design for the second storey of a building, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the second storey of a thirteen-by-five-bay building with the central five bays of the principal front set behind a portico and the central three bays of the rear front forming a bow with a columnar screen. Within, centre-right, there is a dog-leg staircase with a columnar screen and to the left of this there is an additional, smaller staircase. Towards the front of the building there are bedrooms, dressing rooms and closets linked by a passage which runs left to right. At the rear of the building there is a room with an apsidal end and bow window which forms a lady’s dressing room. This is flanked by a further dressing room and bedrooms. Flanking the principal building the roof line of the additional buildings are shown

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber Story of a new Design of Luton Park one of the Seats of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Lady Mount Stewarts Dress.g Room / Lord Mount Stewarts Dressing Room / Bed Cham.r / Dressing Room / Servants Room / Bed Cham.r / Dressing Room / Servants Room / Bed Cham.r / Dress.g Room / Bed Room / Closet / Closet / Bed Room / Dress.g Room / Bed Room / Bed Room / Dressing Room / Servants Room / area / Servants Room / Bed Cham.r / Lady Mount Stewarts Bed Chamr and some dimesions given

Signed and dated

December 1766
27 Decer. 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (718 x 472)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi or William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3 / number 9 / Luton Park one of the seats of the Earl of Bute / new(?) shaded Elevation / pencil inscription (modern curatorial hand)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 85, 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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