[4] Alternative designs for the first floor of a house, c.1768-9, not executed

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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 29/127

Purpose

[4] Alternative designs for the first floor of a house, c.1768-9, not executed

Aspect

Recto: first floor plan comprising five rooms arranged a principal staircase and with the addition of a small backstair to this storey Verso: first floor plan comprising four rooms with a staircase and an additional back stair. There are curved chimney breasts in each room

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Two pairs of Stairs / (in a different hand) – of a house for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / in the new town Edinburgh / (verso) (in pencil) 2 prs of stairs No 4 / (in pen) 26 / House for Andrew Crosbie Esq^r / (in a different hand) St Andrews Square Edin^r / (in a different hand) This to be placed Twenty Sixth / (in pencil) 26

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (592x497)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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