[1] Design for a basement of a house, 1791, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - House of the Bush, Midlothian: designs for a house and stables for Robert Trotter, 1791, executed in part (9)
    - Designs for a house and stables (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/88

Purpose

[1] Design for a basement of a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Basement (ground) floor plan of a house comprising a central circular room flanked by two large rooms with corner turrets, and a large staircase to the rear. Extending from the rear of the main house is a service range comprising a central corridor flanked by smaller rooms and a pair of staircases

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In pencil) Right copy / [_ _ _ _ _] / [_ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _] / closet with some room dimensions / (verso) no 5

Signed and dated

30/12/1791
Edin^g 30 Dec^r / 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (305x252)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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