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[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/37
Purpose
[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted
Aspect
Ground (basement) floor plan of a house with flanking links terminating in pavilions, with adjoining offices. The main house has vaults below external perron staircases to the front and rear, and there is a staircase in the centre of the house, as well as in the pavilions and external lightwells to the front of the house. There is a large kitchen and scullery in one pavilion, and in the other is a bath house with a warm and cold bath flanking a bedroom and dressing room. The adjoining offices comprise a central yard flanked by stores on each side
Scale
bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Story / Wood / Knives / Coals / Kitchen / Scullery / Larder / Larder / Cooks / Pantry / Butlers Pantry / Housekeepers / room / Store room / Bedroom / Strong / room / Bottles / Beer Cellar / Bottles / Servants Hall / Passage / Wine / Cellar / Stewards room / Valets room / Ale & Beer cellar / Ladys / maids / room / Cold Bath / Bed / room / Dressg / room / Warm Bath / Shoes & Boots / Coals / Powdering room / Wood with some room dimensions
Signed and dated
- 1787
datable to 1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (529x236)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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