[10] Design for the basement of a house, 1787, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/87

Purpose

[10] Design for the basement of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground (basement) floor plan of a house comprising a central range and flanking wings, with a large service wing attached to one end and arranged around a courtyard. The central rear room of the main house has a bowed end. Rooms include a kitchen, servants hall, servants room, butlers room and housekeepers room. The service wing contains stabling, a wash house and other store rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Ground Story of a House for Thomas Gillies Esqr / (another hand, in pencil) Smiths] shop / Stable / Coach House / Stable / Back House / Larder / Larder / L[_ _ _ _]y / Wash Ho & Laundry / [_ _ _] house / Kitchen / Housekeepers / room / Butlers room / Servts room / Servts Hall / W[_ _ _ _ _] / (verso) 3

Signed and dated

27/05/1789
Albemarle Street / 27 May 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (587x481)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges / GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 3
King, 2001, p. 12
Further literature references in scheme notes

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