[4] Design for the second 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 32/98

Purpose

[4] Design for the second floor for a pair of houses and a warehouse, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Attic (second) floor plan of a pair of houses flanking a central warehouse with a mixture of bed chambers and bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed chamber / Bed Chamber / Back Stairs / Bed Chamber / Bedroom / Ware room / Ware room / Lobby / Staircase / Ware room / Bed room / Staircase / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Lobby / Bed room / (verso) (underwritten in pencil) John Maire Esq^r Glagow / This to be placed ~~eighteenth~~ seventeenth

Signed and dated

22/2/1792
Albemarle Street / 22^d Febry 1792.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a ruled border on laid paper (513x334)

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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