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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/25

Purpose

[2] Design for the principal floor of a house, c.1773-92, executed status unknown

Aspect

Principal floor plan comprising a large house with an entrance portico to one side with a rear bow on the opposite side, and elliptical bows at each end containing oval-shaped powdering rooms. The principal rooms are arranged around a principal and service stairs in the centre of the house, and each room has at least one apsidal end. The rooms include a drawing room, study, eating room, hall, anteroom, bed chamber and dressing room

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Principal Story of Donovan house belonging to Mr Johnston of Alva (underwritten in pencil) / (in another hand) Mr Johnston’s / Dressing Room / Powdering room / Bed chamber / Anti Room / Hall / Eating Room / Powdering Room / Mr Johnston’s Study / Drawing Room with some room dimensions / (verso) 4

Signed and dated

  • c.1773-92
    datable to c.1773-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (512x353)

Watermark

IV

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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