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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/113

Purpose

[4] Design for the second floor of a house, 1785, executed status unknown

Aspect

Second floor plan of a house comprising a series of bed chambers, closets and dressing rooms with a small staircase to the front of the house. The rear central bed chamber is within a bow and there is a sky light between the two closets

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the two pair Story (and in the hand of William Adam) of a house for / Ilay Campbell Lord Advocate of Scotland / (and in another hand) Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Water Closet / Closet / Closet / Passage / Bed Chamber / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Back stairs / (in pencil) 2 pair with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 8/6/1785
    Adelphi / 8th June 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (282x464)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

WT

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 125

Level

Drawing

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