[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

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  - Glencarse House, Perth and Kinross: designs for a house for Thomas Hunter Esq, 1790, executed to a variant design (8)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/107

Purpose

[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Principal (first) floor plan comprising a central block with an entrance portico and a rear three-bay bow, with flanking wings comprising a kitchen and brewhouse with adjoining enclosed yards. Rooms include an eating room, drawing room, study, butler’s room, writing closet, hall and a bed chamber

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Storey of the House, Offices & Courts of Glencarse House / the seat of Thomas Hunter Esq^r ~ / A / B / C / D / Privy / Shed for / wood / Kitchen Yard / Shed for / Coals / Kitchen / Scullery / Pantry / Eating room / Passage / Lobby / Back Stair / Butler / Drawing room / Hall / Bed chamber / Closet / Study / writing / closet / Brewhouse / Privy / Brewhouse / Shed for / Casks with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

7/9/1790
Edin^r 7 Sept^m / 1790 ~

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (480x307)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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