[17] Design for the ground storey of a building, 1767, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/25

Purpose

[17] Design for the ground storey of a building, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a nineteen-bay building, flanked by five-bay wings. The central building has an entrance set behind a five-bay, stepped portico. This leads to a hall with a colonnaded screen, with a central passage beyond, which links rooms to the front and rear of the building. The rear façade has an entrance set within a three-bay, colonnaded, stepped and bowed front, and this leads to a salon or book room, with colonnaded screens. The principal and rear facades terminate in projecting three-bay, bow windows. To the left and right of the principal block there are five-bay wings, which contain domestic offices, and these are linked to the principal block by seven-bay, curved passages

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of a new Design for Luton House / one of the seats of (in the hand of William Adam) / the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / scullery / Wet Larder / Dry Larder / Kitchen / Bakehouse / Pantry / Court / Coals / Wood / Necessary / stewards Dining room / Drawing room / Organ Drawing room / Saloon or Book room / Book room / Book room / Book Room / Book room / Book room / Dressg room / Bed Chamber / Dress.g room / Hall / Anti Room / Eating Room / Necessary / Wood / Coals / Drying Yard / Wash house / Laundry / Brew house and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

April 1767
15 April 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (727 x 521)

Hand

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

Verso

Luton / Designs made 15t April 1767 (cropped)

Watermark

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 85, 131
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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