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[3] Design for the first floor of a house, 1789, executed in part
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/8
Purpose
[3] Design for the first floor of a house, 1789, executed in part
Aspect
Plan of the principal (first) floor comprising a rectangular block with a large semi-circular coach entrance to the front and a portico to the rear. In the centre of the plan is a large hall flanked by two staircases, and a garden parlour to the rear. There are also four turret staircases. Rooms include dressing rooms, bed chambers, closets, a garden parlour, drawing room, hall, parlour and charter room. The coloured washes denote the additions proposed to the building
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the first Floor of Yester House (and in the hand of William Adam) the Seat of the Marquis of Tweddale / (and in an unknown hand) Dressg room / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressg room / Drawing room / Garden Parlor / Hall / Bed Chamber/ Dressg room / Charter room / Dressing room / Parlor / Closet with some room dimensions. (Verso) 4 / 4
Signed and dated
- 24/03/1789
Albemarle Stre[_ _] / 24th March 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen, wash and coloured wash including pink on laid paper (602x494)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Watermark
GR with a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche [and] Portal & Bridges
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Index, pp. 32
King, 2001, Volume 1, pp. 188-189
Further literary references in scheme notes
King, 2001, Volume 1, pp. 188-189
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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