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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/24

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the first storey of a house, c1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a thirteen-bay building. Towards the principal front there is a central, double-height hall and a double-height, apsidal drawing room. To the rear of the building there is a double-height, circular dining room with a bow window, set behind an external colonnade. In the centre of the building there is an apsidal passage which links to external colonnaded passages leading to bedrooms and a dressing room. The right-hand passage also links to a staircase

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

General Hervey - Bed Room Storey (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / 95 (pencil) / Hall continued / Bed Room- / Dressing Room / Bed Room / Closet / Closet / Bed Room- / Passage / Dining Room continued / Passage / Passage / Bed Room / Staircase / Bed Room- / Drawing Room continued / 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 602)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand

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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