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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

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.

Level

Drawing

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