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[1] Design for a house showing the principal (ground) storey, 1770, not thought to have been executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 42/35
Purpose
[1] Design for a house showing the principal (ground) storey, 1770, not thought to have been executed
Aspect
Plan of the principal (ground) storey of a house, with a five-bay, double pile central block containing a hall, stairs, parlour and kitchen. The central block is flanked by slight recessed wings. The left-hand wing has a three-bay portico, behind which is a wall with two blind windows, and on the side there is a three-bay bow towards the back of the house, behind which is an apsidal dining room. The right-hand wing has a tripartite window at the front, and two tripartite windows on the side, behind all of which is the drawing room, and to the rear of which is a two-bay projection containing a water closet and dressing room
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Principal Story of a house for Mr Henderson (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / North / East / South / West / Dining Parlor / Parlor / Kitchen / Library / Hall / Dressing Room / Water Closet / Drawing Room and measurements for the principal front and each room given / (and in pencil) N 1. 2. 3 4 A & b Closets / 7. 8. Windows / 9. 9. 9. 9 the doors to be Shortened / 10 (rubbed out) the hall being Enlarged the Ceiling & windows / to be made Uniform / New Chimney / Width of this _ _ _ _ _ / 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 (verso) 2 / 2 / Mr Henderson 1770
Signed and dated
- 1770
datable to 1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (529 x 364)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam (underwritten in pencil)
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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