[2] Design for the ground floor of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

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    - 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 29/125

Purpose

[2] Design for the ground floor of a house, c.1768-9, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground floor plan comprising a central hall and stairs with flanking rooms. Rooms include a dining parlour, library, dressing room and bed chamber. The hall and stairs are separated by a screen of columns and pilasters, and the library has an apsidal end opening onto the dressing room

Scale

to a scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Parlour Story / (in pencil) of a house for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / No 2 / in the new town of Edinburgh / (in pen) No. 2 / Bed Chamber / Stairs / Dressing Room / Closet / Water Closet / Side Board / Closet / Dining Parlour / Hall / Library / (in pencil) Library & Consulting / Room with some dimensions and calculations in pen and pencil. (Verso) 6 / 6

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (543x383)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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