[4] Finished drawing for the second 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 30/117

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of the bed chamber storey (second storey) comprising a central block containing five bed chambers and a staircase with the roofs of two flanking wings. There is a canted bay to the rear of the central bed chamber

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story (and in William Adam’s hand) for John MacCulloch Esqr / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / with some room dimensions and illegible pencil annotations. [Verso] 6

Signed and dated

29 March 1788
Albermale Street / 29 March 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within ruled border on laid paper (475x276)

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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