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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/23

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the ground storey of a house, c1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a thirteen-bay building, with a central portico entrance leading to a hall with a colonnaded screen. To the left of the hall there is a bedroom and dressing room, and to the right there is an apsidal drawing room. To the rear of the hall there is an apsidal passage with alcoves, and this links to a circular dining room with niches and a bow window. To the left of the dining room a colonnaded passage links to an external courtyard, and this leads to bedrooms beyond. To the right of the dining room a colonnaded passage leads to a further courtyard, with domestic offices and a staircase beyond. At the rear off the building there is a bowed, stepped colonnade

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

General Hervey Principal Story (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 24 (pencil) / Hall / Bed Room- / Dressing Room / Bed Room / Closet / Closet / Bed Room / Place for Coals / Neccess.y / Court- / Passage / Passage / Dining Room- / Necess.y / Scullery / Court- / Passage / Kitchen- / Stair case/ House Keepers Room / Drawing Room / Extends 94. Feet- and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1766
    c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (503 x 603)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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