[9] Preliminary design for the ground and first floor of a building, c.1791-94, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Glasgow Assembly Rooms: designs, c.1791-94, executed in part (10)
    - Designs for the Glasgow Assembly Rooms, executed in part (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/65

Purpose

[9] Preliminary design for the ground and first floor of a building, c.1791-94, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Sketched principal floor plan comprising a ballroom with three ceiling roses and apsidal ends containing circular rooms and stairs in each corner, with an oval-shaped lobby and adjoining card rooms followed by three sets of staircases at the end, with the layout and room names of the ground floor written over the top. There is a pencil sketch of the apsidal end of a room with a chimneypiece and overmantel and a plan of an engaged column

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Larder / Larder / Pantry / Staircase / Tea / H^o Keep^rs / Card room / Larder / Parlor / Parlor / Porter’s / room / Lobby / Ante room / Card room / Bar / Bar / Ball room / Hall / Parlor / Parlor / Card room / Kitchen / [_ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _] / [_ _ _ _ ] / [_ _ _ _] / Larder / for the / Stair / East [_ _ _ _ _ _] with some dimensions and calculations

Signed and dated

c.1791-94
datable to c.1791-94

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (278x266)

Hand

Probably
Robert or James Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
Richardson, 1802, Pl. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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