[3] Finished drawing for the second floor 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 31/38

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the second floor of the assembly rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Second floor plan comprising the upper levels to the reception rooms shown in SM Adam volume 31/37 with an orchestra set within the gallery of the tea room dome, retiring rooms over the principal staircases and servants rooms and water closets above the bars. 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 Attick Story / Card Room / continued / Tea room / continued / Card / room / continued / Orchestra / Retiring room / for Ladies / Lobby / Lobby / Retiring room / for Gentlemen / Maid Serv^ts room / Water / Closet / Men Servants room / Water Closet / Ball room continued with some room dimensions / (verso) 6 / (in a different hand) This to be placed Seventh / (in a different hand) 6 / Assembly Rooms Edinburgh

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper within a ruled border (331x518)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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