[49] Design for the bed chamber floor of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/7

Purpose

[49] Design for the bed chamber floor of a castle-style building, 1787, as executed

Aspect

Bed Chamber (second) floor plan of a castle-style house comprising a series of bed chambers with a central rear grand staircase supported by columns and lit by a central rooflight. To the rear are a series of bed chambers, dressing rooms and servants’ room, and in the centre is a rotunda divided into two bed chambers. The different coloured wash denotes the proposed (pink) and existing (black and grey) fabric

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story / Bed Chamber / Passage / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Gallery / Gallery / Dressg room / Dressg room / Bed Chamber / Dress^g room / Servts room / Serv^ts room / Bed Cham.^r / Bed Chamber / Dressing / room / Bed Chamber / Dressing / room / Dressing room with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (296x377)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

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