[1] Finished drawing for the basement of the Assembly Rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

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  - Edinburgh Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh: designs for alterations to the Assembly Rooms, c.1787, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/36

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the basement of the Assembly Rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Basement (ground) plan comprising a series of service rooms arranged around a four staircases and a central cellar. Rooms include a supper room framed by a rectangular screen of columns, a kitchen with a bowed bay, scullery, housekeeper's room and servants' room. There is a continuous passage around the sides and rear of the building for sedan chairs. The black and grey washes denote the existing structure (grey) and proposed alterations (black)

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Story / Housekeepers / room / Kitchen / Scullery / Servants room / Servants room / Principal Stairs / Cellar / Principal Stairs / Supper rooms / Passage for Chairs / Passage for Chairs with some room dimensions / (verso) 5

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper within a ruled border (321x516)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 10
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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