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  • image SM Adam volume 36/58

Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/58

Purpose

[11] Finished drawing for the ground floor of a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a house with a central rear bow and flanking wings terminating in three-bay bows to the front, rear and sides. There is a central corridor running across the entire width of the lodge. Rooms include a kitchen, pantry, scullery, larder, cellars, servants' hall, as well as rooms for the butler, valet and cook and servants bedroom

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground or half sunk Story / Servants Bed / room / Valets Bedroom / Servants Bed / room / Servants Hall / Butlers Pantry / Wine in bottles / Stewards room / Beer Cellar / Ale Cellar / Servants / Bed room / Wine in Casks / Cooks room / Larder / Pantry / Kitchen / Scullery with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • c.1781
    datable to c.1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (432x230)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 54
King, 2001, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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