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  • image SM Adam volume 42/45

Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/45

Purpose

[2] Design for the first floor of a house, 1782, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan comprising three large rooms arranged around a staircase. The rear room is bowed and the room to the right is subdivided by internal partitions to the front. Rooms include a dining room, drawing room and breakfast room

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/8 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story (and in the hand of William Adam) of Jeriston house / for James Corrison Esqre / (and in another hand) Dining Room / Drawing Room / Breakfast Room

Signed and dated

  • 1782
    datable to 1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (247x200)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 18
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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