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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/87

Purpose

[1] Copy of a design for a house showing the first-storey plan and principal front elevation, c1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey and elevation of the principal front of a house with a five-bay rectangular central block, with a hipped roof and a central pedimented door; and the central block is flanked by single-storey, single-bay links containing doors, and single-storey, single-bay pavilions with pitched roofs. The plan shows rooms arranged around a half-turn staircase at the centre of the garden front

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

For Thomas White Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Chamber Plan / Copy of Mr Carrs Plan and measurements given (verso) No 4

Signed and dated

  • 1789
    datable to c1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (295 x 481)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam (and underwritten in pencil)

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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