[6] Design for the second floor of a building, 1789, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Findlater Castle, Moray: designs for a castle, stables and offices, gates and a bridge for James Ogilvy 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1789, unexecuted (26)
    - Designs for a castle-style building, 1789, unexecuted (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/35

Purpose

[6] Design for the second floor of a building, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Second floor plan of a house with projecting corner turrets and a central rear bow with a pair of oval staircases with a colonnaded gallery opposite, flanked by a series of bed chambers and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber or two pair Story of Findlater / Bed Chamber / Dressing / room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dress^g room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Vestible / Serv^ts room / Bed Chamber / Closet / Dressg room / Passage / Dressg / room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dress^g / room / Servant / Ladys / Dressing room / Gentlemans / Dress^g room / Bed Chamber / A / B / C / D with some room dimensions / (verso) no 10 / These Plans go 7^th into the Book

Signed and dated

1789
Albemarle Street / datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (487x285)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 13
King, 2001, p. 162
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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