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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/113

Purpose

[4] Design for the attic storey of a house, 1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the attic storey of a five-by-three-bay building, with a bow front in the southern facade. The bowed space is divided into two bedrooms with corner closets, and beyond this a passage links to flanking bedrooms. There is stepped access linking from the passage to the northern section of the building, which contains a dog-legged staircase flanked by further bedrooms, and there is a passage for powdering

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story of Ninewells House (underwritten in pencil) / the Seat of Joseph Hume Esqr (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Copy this in Imperial (?) (pencil) / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bedroom / Passage for Powdering in / Closet / Bed Room / Closet and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • July 1790
    Edinr 4 July / 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (359 x 270)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand
Possibly
Office hand, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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