[18] Design for the first storey of a building, 1767, 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/26

Purpose

[18] Design for the first storey of a building, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first-storey of a nineteen-bay building, with the central five-bays of the principal front set behind a colonnaded screen. The rear façade has a central, three-bay, bowed window, set behind a colonnaded screen. The principal and rear fronts terminate in projecting, three-bay, bowed windows. There is a central passage which links bedrooms and dressing rooms to the front and rear of the building, and the passage terminates in circular bedchambers, with niches at either end. The five-by-three-bay, flanking wings contain further rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber of a new Design for Luton House / one of the Seats (in the hand of William Adam) / of the Earl of Bute (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Gentleman (sic) Dress.g Room / Bed Chamber / Passage 10 feet wide / Lady's Dres.g room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Powdering room / Bed Chamber / Powdering Room / Dressing Room / Water Closet / Water Closet / Anti room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Water Closet / Water Closet / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

April 1767
15 April 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (746 x 510)

Hand

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

Verso

4 / number 7 (brown ink) / Luton Designs / April 15th 1767

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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