[10] Finished drawing for the roof 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 36/18

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the roof of a house, c1783, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the roof of a five-by-five-bay building, with the central three bays of the west front receding, and with a central light well

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Whites Chocolate House (crossed through, pencil) Roof (all in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Earl of Findlater (W.L. Spiers, modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Signed and dated

c1783
c1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and Payne's grey wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (613 x 481)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

no 5 / These Plans go 3d into the Book / 3 (pencil)

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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