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  • image SM Adam volume 35/79

Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/79

Purpose

[5] Design for a house showing garret (second) storey, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the garret (second) storey of an L-shaped house as Adam volume 35/78, but with roof light windows, and containing bedrooms and a dressing room

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Garret Storey (underwritten in pencil) / Bedroom / Bedroom / Dressg room / Closet / Bedroom / Staircase / Lobby / Bedroom / Servts room / Bedroom and some measurements given (verso) No 14 / Mr Alston near Glasgow

Signed and dated

  • 1791
    datable to 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (253 x 304)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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