[13] Design for kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Designs for kitchen offices and stables, 1776 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/39

Purpose

[13] Design for kitchen and laundry offices, 1776, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation and axial sections of a one-and-a-half-storey, three-bay kitchen office with a pitched roof and a sunken basement. The central bay is projecting, and at the ground-storey level there is an arcade with a central entrance flanked by windows. In the upper register there are half-height windows. There is a sunken, double-height kitchen at the basement and ground-storey level, a laundry at the first-storey level, and in the attic-storey level there is a servant’s bedroom

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

For His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh in Hanover Square (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Section through the Offices from C to D. / Kitchen / Laundry / Servants Bedroom and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

August 1776
Adelphi / August 6.t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (534 x 342)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 293
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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