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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/49

Purpose

[2] Design for the principal floor of a castle, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a polygonal-shaped castle bound on one side by a continuous wall, with a semi-circular court at the central corner of the building with a series of niches, with a range to the front connecting to two other ranges. The central range has three principal rooms with an enfilade, and a gallery to the rear connecting to the principal rooms in the other ranges which have double-apsidal ends. There are a series of canted bay, octagonal, circular, and square towers to each range. Rooms include a drawing room, salon, dining room, gallery, ante room, breakfast room, bed chambers, dressing rooms, as well as rooms for the maids, housekeeper, valet, steward and butler. The pink wash denotes the existing fabric

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of Cardiff Castle / one of the Seats of the Right Honble Lord Mountstewart / Maids / room / Water / Closet / Powderg / room / Lady’s Dressing / room / Closet / Bed Chamber / Water / Closet / My Lords’ / Dressing room / 2d. Anti room / or Breakfast room / Valets room / Anti room / Buffet / drawing room / China Closet / Salon / Corridore & Gallery / Court / Dining room / Minia / ture / Pictures / Buffet / Anti room / Linnen / housekeepers room / Store room / Passages / Butlers room / Butlers Pantry / / Plate room / Stewards room with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 22/5/1777
    Adelphi / 22 May 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (593x557)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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