[9] Design for a house, 1789, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Balmakewan House, Angus: designs for a house and stables for Thomas Gillies Esq, 1789, unexecuted (12)
    - Designs for a house and stables for Thomas Gillies Esq, 1789, unexecuted (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/86

Purpose

[9] Design for a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section of a two-storey house (from south to north) over a basement with an attic level. There is a projecting portico with steps over a basement vault. There are chimneypieces in several rooms and an arched doorway on the principal (ground) floor. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House from South to North - / (in the hand of William Adam) for Thomas Gillies Esqr

Signed and dated

2/6/1789
Albemarle Street / 2 June 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink wash and lemon yellow wash on laid paper (480x280)

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

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