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[3] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1792, executed status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 33/101
Purpose
[3] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1792, executed status unknown
Aspect
Plan of the ground (principal) floor of a house containing one apsidal room and one room with an apsidal end to the rear and a staircase, hall and additional room to the front with a porticoed entrance. Adjoining the house is a roofed range. Rooms include a drawing room, eating room, hall and study
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story / Closet / Drawing room / Antiroom / Eating room / Closet / Water Closet / Staircase / Hall / Study / North / Mr Kerr got our copy of the front / th[_ _] day, but is to return it / again _ 13. Apr. 1792 with some room dimensions
Signed and dated
- 18/02/1792
18th Feburary 92 - 22/03/1792
Albermarle Street / 22nd March 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including verdigris and sepia on laid paper (280x188)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Watermark
Crowned cartouche [in part]
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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