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  • image SM Adam volume 43/63

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/63

Purpose

[2] Design for the ground floor of a house, c.1770, as executed

Aspect

Parlour (ground) floor plan comprising a series of rooms arranged around a grand central staircase within a square footprint, with a central rear canted bay. There is an additional staircase on one side. Rooms include a study, dining room, hall, parlour, bed chamber and dressing room. There are pencil additions showing the planned ceiling decoration for the front rooms and staircase

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Parlor[sic] Story (and in the hand of William Adam) of Lord Chief Baron Ords House / in Edinburgh ~ / (in another hand) Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Parlor / Great Staircase / Study / Hall / Dining Room with some dimensions and calculations / (verso) Baron Ord / (in a different hand) Baron Ord

Signed and dated

  • c.1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (496x595)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 123
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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