[2] Design for the ground floor of a building with shops, 1792, unexecuted

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    - Stirling Square (now Blackfriars Street), Glasgow: designs for a group of streets and a square for William Stirling & Sons, 1792, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/4

Purpose

[2] Design for the ground floor of a building with shops, 1792, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground floor plan of a building comprising a front and back shop with a dining room, entrance lobby and a staircase in a rear bow

Scale

bar scale 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Shop Story / (in the hand of William Adam) Stirling Street Glasgow~ / (in another hand) Entrance / Lobby / Public Stair / case / Dining / room / Back Shop / Front Shop with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

4/10/1792
Albemarle Street / 4^th Oct^r 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (325x223)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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