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  • image SM Adam volume 31/84

Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/84

Purpose

[5] Alternative design for the bed chamber floor of a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Same as SM Adam volume 31/89 but with rearrangement of the central rooms to include servants' bedrooms, and a powdering room between the staircases

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story / A / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Servants / Bed / Passage / Powdering / room / Bed Chamber / Servants / Bed / Bed chamber / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions. (Verso) Thomas Gilly Esq / Design A / (in a different hand) This to be placed fifteenth

Signed and dated

  • 1789
    datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (476x258)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 3
King, 2001, p. 121
Further literature 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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