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[3] Finished drawing for a house, c.1792, executed to a variant design
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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
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
King, 2001, Part 1, pp. 233-4
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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