[6] Finished drawing for the ground storey of a house, c1783, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Earl of Findlater, designs for a town house for an unknown location, possibly Portland Place, London, c1783, unexecuted (17)
    - Designs and finished drawings for the basement, ground, first and attic storeys of a house, c1783, unexecuted (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/13

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the ground storey of a house, c1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a five-by-five-bay building, with the central three bays of the west front receding, and containing a central, stepped entrance with a circular porch. Beyond this there is a columnar screened space, with a curved bifurcated staircase to the south, a further curved staircase to the east, and an apsidal-ended space to the north. This links to two apsidal-ended rooms further north. To the south there is a series of rooms, including two oval rooms and a further staircase to the south-west. At the rear / east front there is a pair of splayed staircases leading down from entrances in the first and fifth bays

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Whites Chocolate House (crossed through in pencil) Parlour Story- (all in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 14th (pencil) Findlater (W.L. Spiers, modern curatorial hand, pencil) / no. 1 (red ink) / 24 (red ink)

Signed and dated

c1783
Ink notation (cropped) pencil notation 12 Sepr 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (614 x 484)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

no 5 / 5 / These Plans go Dec[_ _ _] 2d into the Book

Watermark

PVL

Notes

SM Adam volumes 36/10-18 are incorrectly inscribed by William Adam as part of the scheme for White’s Chocolate House, St James’s Street, London.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 103-4, Index, p. 45
Rowan, 1985, p. 138
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 57, 102-6, 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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