[8] Finished drawing for a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Balhazy or sometimes known as Barholm House, Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for John McCulloch, executed to a variant of these designs, c.1787-88 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/114

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Longitudinal section showing a two-storey building with a garret level and flanking single-storey wings over a full-height basement. The section shows a full-height central staircase in the main house with two additional staircases in the flanking wings. The pavilions have tall Venetian windows on the ground floor and Diocletian windows at basement level. The masonry and carpentry of the building structure are denoted by colour

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House Corridores [_ _ _ _ _] / (and in the hand of William Adam) for John MacCulloch Esqr / with some room dimensions and illegible annotations. [Verso] 1

Signed and dated

29 March 1788
Albermale Street / 29 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and lemon yellow and pink coloured washes on laid paper (477x300)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, II, Index, p. 3
Rowan, 1985, pp. 68-69
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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