[4] Design for a house, 1790, executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 48/56

Purpose

[4] Design for a house, 1790, executed

Aspect

Plan of a wing adjoining a house comprising a large room to the front and a passage, staircase, water closet and two other rooms to the rear. Rooms include a drawing room, bed chamber and closet

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Mezzanine Story - / 8 feet high / (in the hand of William Adam) Lord Lauderdale / (and in pencil) Lord Lauderdale / (and in another hand) Bed Chamber / Closet / Water Closet / Drawing room continued and some room dimensions

Signed and dated

03/04/1790
April 3^rd 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including Venetian red on laid paper (175X285)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

knight in crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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