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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/59

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for the principal floor of a lodge, c.1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal floor plan of a lodge comprising a central block with a central rear bow in the eating room, with flanking wings terminating in three-bay bows to the front, rear and sides. Rooms include a hall, anteroom, library with an apsidal end and a mixture of bed chambers, including one at each end of the wings in the central bows, as well as dressing rooms and powdering rooms

Scale

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

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of a Lodge For The Right Honorable / The Earl of Findlater / Bed Chamber / Powdering / room / Water / Closet / Dressing room / Library / Anti room / Bed Chamber / Eating room / Hall / Dress.g / room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dress.g room / Passage / Servants Bed / room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Water / Closet / Powdering / room with some room dimensions / (verso) no 5 / no 5 / These Plans go 11th into the Book

Signed and dated

  • c.1781
    datable to c.1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (431x279)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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