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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/95

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement storey of a house, 1785, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a nine-bay building, containing a scullery, kitchen and housekeeper’s room with canted bay windows. The building links to an additional six-bay block with a central passageway linking to a butler’s pantry with a canted bay window, a wash house, dairy and cellar. The is an additional window at the end of the passage providing additional light

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Ground Story (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of a house for Jas Macpherson Esqr at Putney Common / Cellar / Dairy / Butlers Pantry / Wash House & Laundry / Scullery / Kitchen / Cellar / Cellar / Cellar / Cellar / Wine Cellar / Housekeep.rs room

Signed and dated

  • December 1785
    Adelphi / 5.t Dec.r 1785-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (457 x 296)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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