[10] Design for a section through a house, 1787, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/35

Purpose

[10] Design for a section through a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section from south to north through a three-storey house over a half-sunk basement, with a perron staircase to the south and porte-cochere to the north. Some of the basement rooms are vaulted, there are consoled door surrounds to the principal floor rooms, which flank a central principal staircase lit by a rooflight. There are chimneypieces in the rooms of the upper floors. The different coloured washes denote the building materials

Scale

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

Inscribed

Section from South to North

Signed and dated

1787
datable to 1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (271x188)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

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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