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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/96

Purpose

[3] Design for the attic floor of a house, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Attic floor plan comprising a central block with series of bed chambers, dressing rooms, closets and a staircase, with pitched roofs to the flanking links and hipped roofs to the flanking wings

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attick[sic] Story of the Body of the House & Roofs of the Wings / and intermediate Buildings or Corridors / (and in the hand of William Adam) for _ Sproul Esqr / (and in another hand) Bed Chamber / Dressing Closet / Dress.g / Closet / Lobby / Closet / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions / (verso) Sproul Esq.r Lint House near Glasgow / 6 / (in a different hand) This to be placed Seventeenth / (in pencil) 17

Signed and dated

  • 13/12/1791
    Edin.r 13th Decembr / 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (490x307)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson or Robert Morison

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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