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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/99

Purpose

[4] Design for the first floor of a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a house comprising a central circular room and apsidal room flanked by two large rooms, below is a large central room accessed by a columned opening and flanked by two stairwells and a series of smaller rooms. On one side are the roofs to a service wing with bow ends

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

36 / (in pencil) 36th / (in pen, in the hand of William Adam) Honble Keith Stewart

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (250x143)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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