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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/89

Purpose

[3] Design for the second floor and garret of a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: Roof and garret plan of a house comprising a rectangular building with corner turrets. The roof is hipped. In the centre is a large circular room with three windows, and a rear staircase Lower: Second floor and roof plan of a house and service range. The house comprises a series of bedrooms arranged around a central circular room and staircase, with four corner turrets. The roofs to the service range are pitched

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In pencil) Right copy / (verso) no 6 / Trotter Esqr right [_ _ _]ies

Signed and dated

  • 30/12/1791
    Eding 1791 / datable to 30/12/791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (247x493)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 5
King, volume 1, 2001, pp. 394, 406
King, volume 2, 2001, p. 161
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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