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[1] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1791, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/94
Purpose
[1] Design for the principal floor of a house, 1791, unexecuted
Aspect
Principal floor plan comprising a central block flanking links terminating in wings with adjoining service yards. The central block contains an eating room, drawing room, study and staircase arranged around a central hall. The flanking links and wings contain additional staircases and rooms including a butler’s pantry, powdering room, dressing room, bed chamber and kitchen. The service yards have small storerooms for coals, knives, shoes, and ashes as well as a cellar for beer and a scullery adjoining the kitchen. There is a pencil sketch for part of an elevation, as well as plan and elevation for a small two-storey building
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Principal Story of the Body of the House Wings & Corridore[sic] of a new Design for Lint House / near Glasgow for Sproul Esq.r ~ / Ashes / Knives / Shoes / Scullery / Privy / Coals / Beer Cellar / Kitchen / Stairs / Water / Closet / Butlers / Pantry / Passage / Eating room / Drawing room / Staircase / Study / Powd.g room / Water / Closet / Dress.g room / Stair / Bed Chamber / Coals with some room dimensions and some additional pencil sketches and calculations
Signed and dated
- 13/12/1791
Edinr 13th Dec.r / 1791
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (486x270)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison
Verso
Rough ground plan of a house with a portico, rear bow and projecting staircase wings with room dimensions and calculations in pencil
Watermark
GR surmounted by a fleur des lis within a crowned cartouche
Notes
The design on the verso could possibly be a variant preliminary design for Lint House. There is a portico and rear bow drawn faintly in pencil on the recto.
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 21
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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