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[1] Finished drawing for a house, c.1792, executed to a variant design
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 46/39
Purpose
[1] Finished drawing for a house, c.1792, executed to a variant design
Aspect
Upper: Principal elevation comprising a three-storey, seven-bay building with a projecting circular bow with a conical roof flanked by crow-stepped gables. The entrance is enclosed within a heavy portico and there are bartizans to the corners of the house
Lower: Ground-storey plan showing a U-shaped building enclosing a small courtyard to the rear. The colours denote existing (black) and proposed fabric (grey), showing an additional wing and circular bow proposed by Adam as well as some internal partitions. Rooms include a kitchen, housekeeper's room, hall, butler's room, servants' hall and laundry
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
South Front / Mr Ramsay Kings Crommond / Ground Story (in the hand of William Adam) / Kitchen / Pantry / Store rooms / House Keepers / Staircase / Lobby / Hall / Porch / Butlers room / Servants Hall / Laundry / with some room dimensions and (in pencil) some annotations
Signed and dated
- c.1792
datable to c.1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (260x435)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Part 1, pp. 223-4
Further literary references in scheme notes
King, 2001, Part 1, pp. 223-4
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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