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  • image SM Adam volume 46/41

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/41

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a house, c.1792, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Plan of the bedroom storey (second storey) showing a U-shaped building. The colours denote the existing (black) and proposed fabric (grey and unwashed), showing an additional wing and circular bow to the front. Rooms include bedrooms, dressing rooms and a nursery

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Bed Room Story (in the hand of William Adam) / Bedchambr / Closet / Bedroom / Nursery / Mr Ramsay’s Dressing room / Mr Ramsays Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Mr Ramsays Dressg room / Water Closet / W Closet / Ladys Maids room / with some room dimensions and (in pencil) annotations

Signed and dated

  • c.1792
    datable to c.1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (217 x 161)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Part 1, pp. 233-4
Further literary 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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