[3] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1790, executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Dunbar House, also known as Lauderdale House, East Lothian: Designs for additions to a house for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, 1790-92, executed in part (12)
    - Designs for a house, 1790-92, executed in part (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/55

Purpose

[3] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1790, executed

Aspect

Plan of the principal (ground) floor comprising a central block with projecting flanking wings. The central block has a projecting central bay with a semi-circular stepped portico. There are large rooms to the front in the flanking wings with lateral corridors connecting to the central block and smaller, subdivided rooms to the rear

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Principal Story of the Right Honorable Earl of Lauderdales House at Dunbar / (and in another hand) ~~Drawing Room~~ / Passage / Closet / Library with alphabetic room references and some room dimensions

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (393x239)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

crowned cartouche [in part]

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 10
Further literary references in the scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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