[2] Preliminary design for the first storey of a house, 1785, unexecuted

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  - Saint Hill House, Sussex, for Gibbs Crawfurd, variant designs for a house, 1785, unexecuted (13)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/108

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for the first storey of a house, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a three-by-four-bay house, with the central bays of the north and south fronts projecting. The north front consists of tripartite windows, and the central bay of the south front contains an apse set behind a balustrade and flanked by paired columns. There is a central circular staircase, which is set behind a columnar screen, and this leads to an apsidal ended powdering room. The central staircase is surrounded by bedchambers and dressing rooms, and there is an additional small staircase to the north east

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Powdering room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / 108 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

December 1785
Adelphi / 15.t Decr 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (473 x 274)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Gibs (sic) Crawford Esqr

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 27
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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