[5] Finished drawing for the attic storey of a building, c1764, unexecuted

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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
    - Designs for a building, c1764, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/46

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the attic storey of a building, c1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the attic storey of a twenty-one by fifteen-bay building. To the southwest and northeast there are attic storey rooms forming further bedchambers. The northwest and southeast ranges have pitched roofs. The towers have crenulated square turrets, and the turrets to the north east have conical oculi. The southeast towers are projecting, with two-bay link blocks, and this forms an irregular façade

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story of Luton Castle in Bedfordshire / Showing the Roofs of the other parts of the House- / Belonging to The Right Honble The Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Bed cham.r / Bed room / Bed cham.r / Bed Chamber / Passage - / Bed chamber / Bed room / Bed cham.r / Bed chamber / Bed chamber / Passage / Bed chamber / Bed room / closet / Bed room / Bed cham.r / 46 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1764
c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (543 x 510)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi or William Hamilton, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

number 8 (brown ink) / 8 (pencil) / Lord Bute Luton Park a house in the Castle style

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fluer-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, Volume I, p. 12; Volume II, pp. 85, 131, 163
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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