[3] Design for the first floor for a pair of houses and a warehouse, 1792, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Glasgow
    - George Square, Glasgow: designs for a group of terraces for John Mair (or Maire), and Messrs Todd & Shortridge, 1792, unexecuted (7)
      - Designs for a pair of houses and a warehouse on the north side of George’s Square, 1792, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/97

Purpose

[3] Design for the first floor for a pair of houses and a warehouse, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Bed chamber (first) floor plan of a pair of houses flanking a central warehouse with bed chambers, bed rooms, dressing rooms and a drawing room

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story / (in the hand of William Adam) for John Maire Esquire / (in another hand) Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Staircase / Drawing rooms / Back Stairs / Ware room / Ware room / Lobby / Staircase / Wareroom / Staircase / Bed room / Bed Chamber / Lobby / Servants / Bed / Closet / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions / (verso) John Maire Esq.^r in Glasgow / (in a different hand) John Maire Esq^r Glasgow / from Edin.^r 22^d. July 96

Signed and dated

22/2/1792
Albemarle Street / 22^dFebry 1792.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a ruled border on laid paper (518x327)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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