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[4] Design for the first floor of a building, c.1791-92, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 48/12
Purpose
[4] Design for the first floor of a building, c.1791-92, as executed
Aspect
Second (first) floor plan comprising a central polygonal range with flanking links terminating in pavilions with staircases. The central range comprises a lobby, a manager’s room with apsidal ends, a staircase, and two business rooms. The links contain wards with an apsidal end adjoining the lobby and a large fireplace at the other end, with bedrooms, water closets and nurses’ rooms beyond
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the second Story of Wards for the Infirmary at Glasgow / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Back stairs / 8 steps / water / Closet / Passage / Assistant / Nurse / Ward / Pold / Accomplant / Clerk / Pold / marble / Managers room / Ward / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Passage / Water / Closet / Nurses room / Clerks room / (in pencil) Pediment with some dimensions / (verso) no 4 / 4
Signed and dated
- c.1791-92
datable to c.1791-92
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (626x525)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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