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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/71

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a house, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground (basement) plan of a house comprising a quadrangular house with a central rear bow. Rooms include a kitchen, scullery, pantry and larder, storerooms and a housekeeper’s room

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story – / Wash houses & Laundry / Scullery / Kitchen / Wine binns / Store room / Housekeepers room / Ale & Cyder cellar / Larder / Pantry / Area / Vault / Vault / for Bottles / Coal Vault / Vault / for wood / Vault / for Wood / (in pencil) Scullery with some om dimensions / (verso) No 6 / No 6

Signed and dated

  • 20/3/1780
    Adelphi / 20.h March 1780 –

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (629x460)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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