[9] Design for a house, 1787, executed in part

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  - Glasserton House, Dumfries and Galloway: designs for a house for Keith Stewart, 1787, executed in part (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/67

Purpose

[9] Design for a house, 1787, executed in part

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a three-storey house over a part-basement, with an attic. The basement rooms are vaulted and above the central part, the main rooms are supported by a mixture of Tuscan and Ionic columns. There is a large roof-lit staircase which terminates at the second floor. Below the basement there is a large drain running across the entire house. At one end is a single-storey service wing connected by a pitch-roofed passage. The different colours denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Glasserton house taken in the line E. F. / (in the hand of William Adam) for Admiral Keith Stewart with some dimensions

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink on laid paper (473x298)

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

Level

Drawing

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