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[7] Design for the ground storey of a house, 1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 45/106
Purpose
[7] Design for the ground storey of a house, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the ground storey of a thirteen-by-three-bay building, with the central three-bays of the front and rear façades forming bows. The central seven-bay block is flanked by projecting three-bay wings. The principal front has a central stepped entrance, which leads to a hall with an apsidal end and a colonnaded screen. The hall is flanked by an ante room and breakfast room. Beyond the hall there is a central passage, which terminates in staircases. To the rear there is an apsidal ended library with a bow window, and this is flanked by an ante room, a dressing room and water closets. The left-hand wing contains a rectangular drawing room and an eating room with a shallow apse containing niches. The right-hand wing contains bedrooms, a dressing room, and powdering rooms, and these are divided by a central passage, which terminates in a water closet. There is an additional staircase which leads to a mezzanine storey, which contains servants’ bedrooms and closets
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story of a House / for John Robinson Esqr at Syon Hill (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / No. 39 (brown ink) / x (brown ink) / No. 48 (brown ink) / Mr. R. has a fair copy (brown ink) / Hall / Anti room / Drawing room / Eating room / Anti room / Library / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Powdering room / Passage / Water Closet / Powder.g room / Dress.g room / Bed Chamber / Breakfast room / Closet / Closet / Servants room and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- February 1779
Adelphi / 15. Feby. 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (471 x 318)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
4
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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