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[1] Copy of a design for a house showing the first-storey plan and principal front elevation, c1789, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see 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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