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[2] Design for the principal floor of a building, 1791, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/17
Purpose
[2] Design for the principal floor of a building, 1791, unexecuted
Aspect
Principal (first) floor plan of a building comprising a central block with a projecting portico, with flanking three-bay links terminating in three-bay blocks. The central block contains a ball room with an apse in the centre of the partition leading to a smaller dancing room with flanking card rooms with apses to the windows and columned screens to each room. The links contain staircases, tea rooms and anterooms, and the end blocks contain additional staircases and small rooms, each with chimneypieces
Scale
to a scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Assembly Rooms, containing rooms for Dancing, Musick[sic], Cards, Tea & Coffee Rooms with Proper Antirooms[sic] / of Communication, Also shewing[sic] the first Story of the Houses over the Shops in the end Buildings / Tea room / or / Antiroom / Antiroom / Tea &c / Cards / Smaller Dancing rooms / or card [_ _ _ _ _ _ ] rooms / cards / [_ _ _ ] &c / Ball room / Tea room / or / antiroom / Antiroom with room dimensions / (verso) Assembly Rooms Glasgow / (in a different hand) 4 / Glasgow Assembly Rooms 5 Plans / (in another hand) This to be placed Third
Signed and dated
- 10/09/1791
Edinr 10 September 1791
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (557x353)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison
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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