[3] Design for the first floor of a house, c.1770, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Edinburgh
    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Designs and finished drawings for a house and stables, executed in part, c.1770-71 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/64

Purpose

[3] Design for the first floor of a house, c.1770, as executed

Aspect

Principal (first) 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 dressing room, two bedchambers and two drawing rooms. There are pencil additions showing the planned ceiling decoration for the two front drawing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story (and in the hand of William Adam) of Lord Chief Baron Ords House / in Edinburgh / (in another hand) Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Great Stairs / Bed Chamber / 1st Drawing Room / 2^d Drawing Room with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

c.1770
datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (500x591)

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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