[3] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1792, executed status unknown

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  - Woodburn House, Midlothian: designs for a house for James Kerr Esquire, 1792, executed status unknown (7)

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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
18^th 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

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

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