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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/27

Purpose

[3] Design for the second floor of a building, 1791, as executed

Aspect

Second floor plan comprising a central circular opening over the hall with a central committee room to the rear in a bowed end with lobbies and staircases either side, and flanked by wings with internal bowed partitions, with small rooms for the storage of papers and books
  • image SM Adam volume 48/27

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story over the Great Hall for the Trades of Glasgow / Committee room / Closet for / Papers / Great Hall continued / Closet for / Papers & books / Committee room / Writers Closet / Staircase / Lobby / Committee room / Lobby / Passage to the / Dome / Staircase with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1791
    Robt Adam Archt 1791 ~

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (457x305)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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