[3] Design for the first floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

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  - Balavil House (formerly Balaville), Highlands: designs for additions to a house for James Macpherson, 1790, executed to a variant design (14)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/66

Purpose

[3] Design for the first floor of a house, 1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

First floor plan of a house comprising a central staircase on one side of the building flanked by closets and bedchambers, with a corridor and principal rooms beyond. Principal rooms include a dining room, drawing room and more bedchambers. The different colour washes denote the existing (pink) and proposed (clear) fabric

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the one pair Story / (in pencil) of Balaville House / (in pen) being the original design for doubling the House to the north / A / The old Lines dotted on this plan / shew the way the new Roof is to be made / This is the right Copy ̴ / Bed chamber / Bed Chamber / Closet / Staircase / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Passage / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dining room / Drawing room / ~~Dining room~~ / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions / (verso) 4

Signed and dated

12/1/1790
Albemarle Street / 12. Jan^y. 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink coloured wash on laid paper (477x268)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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