[2] Finished drawing for the basement storey of 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 30/115

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the basement storey of a house, 1788, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a house showing a central block with a rear canted bay and two flanking wings terminating in pavilions. Rooms include a wash house, housekeeper's room, store room, scullery, butler's room, and kitchen

Scale

bar scale of of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Story (and in William Adam’s hand) for John MacCulloch Esqr / Wash house / Temporary Cellar / Passage / Housekeepers room / Store room / Scullery / Butlers room or present Kitchen / Temporary Cellar / Future Kitchen / with some room dimensions and illegible pencil annotations

Signed and dated

1788
datable to 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within ruled border on laid paper (465x252)

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

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

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