[13] Alternative design for the bedchamber floor of a house, c.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 31/71

Purpose

[13] Alternative design for the bedchamber floor of a house, c.1790, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Bedchamber (second) floor plan of a rectangular house with a series of bedchambers arranged around a central passage, with dressing rooms, a principal stair and back stair. Flanking the house are pyramidal roofs of the pavilions

Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of a new Design for Ballaville House for / James Macpherson Esq^r. / B / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dress^g. room / Serv^ts. Room / Bed Chamber / Back Stair / Principal Stair / Bed Chamber / Bed Cham^r / Dressing / room / Dressing / room with some room dimensions / (verso) This to be placed Twelfth

Signed and dated

6/3/1790
Albemarle Street / 6 March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (520x297)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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