[4] Design for the attic floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
    - Variant designs for a house, 1787, unexecuted (19)
      - Designs for a house, 1787, unexecuted (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/40

Purpose

[4] Design for the attic floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Attic (second) floor plan of a house with flanking pavilions. The main house comprises a series of bed chambers and dressing rooms arranged around a central staircase and lightwell. The pavilions comprise servants bedrooms, wardrobes and staircases

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick Story (and in the hand of William Adam) of Kirkdale in Galloway the Seat of / Sir Samuel Hannay Bart / (in a different hand) 1st Design / Garrets / Garrets / Bed Room / for Servants / Bed room / for Servants / servants / wardrobe / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Servants / Bedroom / Servants / Bedroom / servants / wardrobe with some room dimensions / (verso) no 8

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (463x268)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

GR 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.

Level

Drawing

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