[7] Finished drawing for the floor plans 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 36/106

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for the floor plans of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Three plans showing the ground, first and second floors of a house, similar to SM Adam volumes 36/105, 107 and 108, comprising a central block with a projecting central bay, a rear three-bay bow and flanking wings with pitched roofs and single-storey enclosed yards

Scale

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

Inscribed

Thomas Hunter Esq of Glencarse / (in pencil) Principal Story / Plan of the Principal Story / Principal Story [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] for Thomas Hunter Esq^r / Kitchen Yard / Brewhouse Yard / Plan of the Bed Chamber Story

Signed and dated

1790
datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (456x279)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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