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[3] Design for the bedchamber floor of a house, c.1790, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/84
Purpose
[3] Design for the bedchamber floor of a house, c.1790, unexecuted
Aspect
Bedchamber (second) floor plan for an irregular-hexagon-shaped building with round towers at each angle. There are several bedchambers and dressing rooms arranged around a central lobby flanked by a principal staircase and back stairs, the two bedchambers on the slanted angles of the house have apses at one end and protruding bays at the other flanked by hexagonal and D-shaped dressing rooms
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Bed Chamber Storey of Fullerton Castle the Seat of / Colonel Wm Fullerton / Bed room / Closet / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Passage / Water Closet / Back Stairs / Lobby / Principal Stairs / Water Closet / Passage / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Closet / Closet / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressg room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room and some measurements given / (verso) no 6 / Colonel Fullarton house / n[_] 6 / These Plans go 17 into the Book / (in pencil) 17
Signed and dated
- c.1790
datable to c.1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (464x295)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
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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