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[1] Design for a group of buildings arranged around a series of streets, 1792, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/65
Purpose
[1] Design for a group of buildings arranged around a series of streets, 1792, unexecuted
Aspect
Street plan showing a group of buildings containing shops arranged around three streets in a U-shape, with privies, yards, and stables to the rear of the buildings with two mews entrances on one side. Each building has a parlour and a staircase, some within bowed ends
Scale
bar scale of 7/8 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
General Plan of the Buildings designed for Messrs. Muirheid[sic] & Dunmore containing eighteen Stances or lands with carriage Mews & Yards / behind the houses. The parts tinted red shew the dwelling houses, the parts tinted yellow the Coach houses & Stables which may either belong / to the houses or be let separately ~ / Campbell Street 60 feet wide / Part of John Street / 60 feet wide / Ingram Street South / 60 feet wide / Mr Browns Property / Entrance to the Mews / 11 feet wide / Mews 28 feet wide, with Stables & Coach houses / Entrance to the Mews / 11 feet wide / Shop / 13 / Shop / Passage / Shop / 14 / Stair / case / for the / Building / Back Shop / Passage / Shop / 12 / Back Shop / Yard / Yard / Staircase / Shop / 11 / Parlor / Yard / Staircase / Dressing / room / Shop / 10 / Parlor / Yard / Shop / 9 / Parlor / Staircase / Shop / 8 / Parlor / Privy / Yard / Passage / Staircases / for 3 houses / Shop or / sitting room / Shop / 7 / Passages / Shop / 6 / Dressg / room / Back shop / Yard / Shop / 5 / Parlor / Passage / Stair / case / Dressg / room / Yard / Shop / 4 / Parlor / Passage / Staircase / Dressg / room / Yard / Shop / 3 / Passage / Parlor / Staircase / Dressg / room / Shop / Yard / 2 / Parlour / Passage / Dressg / room / Yard / Shop / Parlor / Dressg / room / Yard / Privy / Privy / Privy / Coach / house / Stable / Stable / Harness / Privy / Coach house / Privy / Stable / Stable / Coach / house / Privy / Stable / Privy / Harness / Stable / Coach house / Stable / Harness / Saddle / Privy / Yard / Staircase / Back shop / or Parlor / Shop / 18 / Shop 15 / Back Shop / Passage / Staircase / Shop / 16 / Back Shop / Shop / 17 / Back Shop / Staircase / Yard / Privy / Stable / Coach / house / Yard / Privy / Stable / Couch / house / Yard / Privy / Stable / The dwelling houses to / have a servitude upon the / Coach houses in the Mews / for cleaning the [_ _ _ _] of / the privies in the Gardens / (verso) 2 Elevations & Ground plan / of Buildings for Messr Muirhead & Duncan / at Glasgow
Signed and dated
- 2/11/1792
Albemarle Street / 2d. Novr. 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and lemon yellow on laid paper (607x532)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Watermark
J Whatman / W surmounted by a fleur des lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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