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  • image SM Adam volume 45/102 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/102 verso

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for the first storey of a house, c1779, unexecuted

Aspect

As SM Adam volume 45/101, but with alterations. The breakfast room is apsidal ended, with niches, and there is an alternative formation of rooms to the right of the principal stairs, with a central apsidal ended room

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Vestibule Hall (pencil) / Breakfast R (pencil) / Drawg Room (pencil) / Area / 5 / faint pencil calculations and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1779
    c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (367 x 474)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
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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