[1] Design for the basement of a house, 1787, executed in part

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/68

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement of a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Basement plan comprising six rooms in the central block of a building; all the rooms appear to be vaulted. There is an additional room drawn in pencil containing another staircase. A drainage line is depicted by dashes running through the building. The coloured wash denotes the proposed area

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(in pencil) North / (in pen) Plan of the Cellar Story of Glasserton House / (in the hand of William Adam) for Admiral Keith Stewart (overwritten in pencil) / (in another hand, in pen) Wine in bottles / Wine in Corks / Passage / Ale & Beer Cellar / Cellar / Cellar for Madeira & / (in pencil) Scullery Sink 3 [_ _] / Kitchen Sink 3 [_ _ ] and some room dimensions and letters. (Verso) 6 / Keith Stewart / [_ _] erton House

Signed and dated

13/11/1787
Albemarle Street / 13th Nov^r 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink coloured wash on laid paper (457x298)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
King, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 106, 136
Further literature references in scheme notes

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