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[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, 1792, executed status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 33/100
Purpose
[1] Design for the basement floor of a house, 1792, executed status unknown
Aspect
Ground (basement) floor plan showing a square house with a series of small rooms including a servants' hall, kitchen, housekeeper's room, staircase and bedrooms. Adjoining the house is a single range comprising a series of small spaces including a larder, coal cellar, beer cellar and scullery
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Storey (and in the hand of William Adam) of Woodburne house the Seat of James Kerr Esqr / (and in an unknown hand) West / Store room / Housekeepers room / Closet / P[_ _]d / Servants Hall / staircase / Servants Beds / Kitchen / Passage / Closet / Pantry / Scullery / Passage / Knives & / Kitchen Court / Privy / Ashes / Privy / Small beer Cellar / Coal Cellar / Larder / Larder / 5 and some room dimensions
Signed and dated
- 18/02/1792
18th February 92 - 22/03/1792
Albemarle Street / 22d March 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (291x193)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Watermark
W surmounted by a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, Vol. II, Index, 1922, p. 31
King, Vol. II, 2001, p. 134
Further literary references in scheme notes
King, Vol. II, 2001, p. 134
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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