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[2] Design for a house, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/70
Purpose
[2] Design for a house, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the principal (first) storey of a house, as Adam volume 43/69, but with a central porticoed entrance on the central block, with a bridge which spans the area below, and with balustraded windows on the garden front, and a central three-bay portico of engaged columns, and a central tapering external staircase, and with tripartite windows in the flanking wings. This storey contains reception, domestic and service rooms (verso) part of the plan drawn in pencil
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story of a house / for General Scott in Edinburgh (of a house / for General Scott in Edinburgh in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Powdering Room / Water Closet / Dressing Room / Passage / Drawing Room / Hall / Dining Room / Staircase / Generals Dressing Room / Passage (underwritten in pencil) / Kitchen / Closet / Water Closet / Pantry and some measurements given, and some rough calculations in pencil (verso) 5
Signed and dated
- 19/08/1774
Adelphi August 19t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (598 x 484)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam, with additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 12
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
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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