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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/85

Purpose

[6] Design for the first storey of a house, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a v-shaped building, formed with a rear rotunda, flanked by four-bay wings. The rotunda forms a five-bay rear bow, which is divided to form semi-circular bedrooms. The bedrooms are accessed via paired steps, which flank a circular staircase. Towards the principal front there is a central lobby flanked by further staircases and there is a powdering room set behind the left-hand staircase. The lobby is flanked by further bedrooms, which link to apsidal-ended dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the one pair Story / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Lobby / Powd.g room / Bed Chamber / Dress.g room / A (pencil)/ B (pencil) / C (pencil) / D (pencil) / 84 (pencil) / No. 13 (brown ink) / Mr R. has a fair copy of this (brown ink) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • October 1778
    Adelphi / 1.st Oct.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (540 x 335)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 17
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 162-63
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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