[1] Design for the basement of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Edinburgh
    - St Andrew Square, number 35, Edinburgh: designs for a house for Andrew Crosbie, c.1768-9, executed to a variant design (8)
      - Designs for a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/124

Purpose

[1] Design for the basement of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

Aspect

Recto: basement plan comprising a central corridor with a rear staircase and flanking rooms. Rooms include a housekeepers room, kitchen, servants hall and a wash house and laundry Verso: preliminary design, same as recto

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(in pencil) Sunk Story / No. 1 / (in pen) Sunk Story – of a house for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / (in pencil) at the new town of Edinburgh / (in pen) at the new town of Edinburgh / Wash house & Laundry / Servants Hall - / Madeira & / Strong Beer / Small Beer / ‘Cellar’ / Pantry / Cooks Bed / Scullery / Housekeepers Room / Larder / Kitchen / (verso) 5 / (in pencil) Wash house & Laundry / Servants Hall / Cooks Bed / Scullery / Housekeepers room / Kitchen

Signed and dated

c.1768-69
datable to c.1768-9

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (591x495)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
King, 2001, p. 125
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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