[6] Finished drawing showing a plan of the first storey for the first scheme, c1777, unexecuted

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- Country houses
  - The Oaks, Carshalton, Surrey: designs for alterations to the house for the 12th Earl of Derby, c1777 (24)
    - 1st scheme for the house, c1777, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/29

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing showing a plan of the first storey for the first scheme, c1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a house, as drawings 29/27-28, but with the roofs of the links shown at this level, and the outline of the wings, with rectangular buildings above on this level, and containing bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

A (in pencil) / Plan of the one pair Story. of Oaks Castle one of the / seats of the Earl of Derby (of Oaks Castle one of the / seats of the Earl of Derby in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Bed room / Dressg room / Bed room / Dressg room / Dressg closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressg closet / Bed Chamber / Staircase / Staircase / Bed Chamber / Dressg closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressg closet / Dressg room / Bed Chamber / Dressg room / Bed Chamber and some measurements given (verso) Lord Derby / 5 / 5

Signed and dated

c1777
datable to c1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (647 x 479)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Rowan, 1985, pp. 102, 104
Rowan, October 1985, p. 678
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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