[12] Design for the first storey of an octagonal house, 1779, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/91

Purpose

[12] Design for the first storey of an octagonal house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of an octagonal building with a twenty-four-bay circumference. The building is formed around an octagonal drum containing a colonnaded, bifurcated staircase. The central drum is surrounded by rooms, including ante rooms set behind double colonnaded screens, and these lead to an apsidal ended dining room and drawing room. There is an oval dressing room and a semi-circular lobby leading to an additional staircase, which is circular. Each three bays of the façade are set behind balustrades and flanked by paired columns

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of a New Design for John Robinson Esq.r / proposed to be built at Syon Hill- (underwritten in pencil) / No. 62. (brown ink) / Mr R has a fair copy (brown ink) / A / B / Great Stairs / Anti room / Dining room / Lobby / Drawing room / Anti room / Servants Bedroom / Library or Dressing room / Lady Dressing room / Powdering room / Bed Chamber / Servants Bedroom and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

November 1779
Adelphi / 18.t Nov.r 1779-

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (441 x 566)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
Rowan, 1985, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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