[8] Design for the first storey of a house, 1779, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/107

Purpose

[8] Design for the first storey of a house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the second storey of the central seven-bay block of a thirteen-bay building. The seven-bay block has three-bay bowed windows to the front and rear, and contains bedrooms, a dressing room and a powdering room. There is a central passage, and this terminates in staircases at either end. The central block is flanked by three-bay wings

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the two pair Story / of a House for (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / John Robinson Esq Syon Hill (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / No. 49 (brown ink) / Mr. R. has a fair copy (brown ink) / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Powdering room / Water Closet / Bed Chamber / Dress.g room / Bed Chamber / A (pencil) / B (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

February 1779
Adelphi / 15.t Feby. 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (473 x 320)

Hand

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

Verso

number (brown ink) / John Robinson Esq.r Syon hill 4th (crossed through) Design

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

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