[5] Design for the bedchamber floor of a castle-style house, 1792, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mauldsley or Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshire: designs for a castle-style house and stables for Thomas Carmichael, 5th Earl of Hyndford, 1791-96, as executed (15)
    - Designs and finished drawings for a castle-style house, 1791-92, as executed (11)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/12

Purpose

[5] Design for the bedchamber floor of a castle-style house, 1792, as executed

Aspect

Bedchamber (second) floor plan of a rectangular house with four circular corner towers. The floor is subdivided into a series of bedchambers, dressing rooms and closets with two oval staircases towards the centre

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

No ³ / (In the hand of William Adam) Bedchamber Story of Mauldsley Castle / (and in another hand) Closet / Dress^g room / Bed Chamber / Dress^g room / (in pencil) To have marble / stops only / (in pen) Passage / Bed Chamber / Closet / Staircases / Dressing room / (in pencil) To have marble / [_ _ _ _] only / (in pen) Serv^ts room / Serv^ts room / Dressing rooms / (in pencil) To have marbles – / similar to Bed Chamber / (in pen) Staircases / Bedchamber / Closet / Passage / Dress^g room / (in pencil) To have marble / stops only / (in pen) Bed Chamber / Dress^g room / Closet / Lobby / Bedchamber / A / Closet / Bedchamber / B / Closet / NB. The windows marked / A . B to go down to the / floor, & a [_ _ _ _] to fit in / the window head to throw / up the sash for head / room, to walk out to / the Balcony – The / drawing at large of the / moldings[sic] shows the profile / of the Balcony – with some room dimensions and pencil annotations

Signed and dated

11/08/1792
Albemarle Street / 11^th Aug^t 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink and yellow on laid paper (433x287)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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