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Reference number

SM Adma volume 30/80

Purpose

[2] Variant design for the principal floor of a castle-style building, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Principal floor plan of an existing quadrangular house with additions to the front and rear. The front comprises a central rotunda flanked by a drawing room and dining room, leading to the principal stairs. To the rear is a central garden parlour with apsidal ends flanked by narrow links containing additional stairs and a water closet, terminating in projecting wings. Other rooms include a hall, library, lobby, back stairs, powdering room and a mixture of dressing rooms, bed chambers and water closets. The library is in the existing house but shows additions including two screens of columns, new windows and a new chimneypiece. The different colour washes denote the existing (grey) and proposed (black) fabric

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal floor of Castle Semple, the parts shaded light show the walls of the Present House / these shaded black being the proposed Alterations & Additions ~ / Hall / Drawing room / Dinning room / Lobby / Back Stairs / Water Closet / Library / Bed chamber / Dressing room / Garden Parlor / Water / Closet / Powdering / Room / Dressing room / Mr Macdowalls / Bed Chamber / Lobby / Gentlemens / Dressing room / Ladys / Dressg Room / Bed Chamber with some room dimensions / (verso) Various sketches of Castle Semple / (in another hand) 3/10 / Wm McDowal Esqr / (in another hand) This to be placed Seventeenth

Signed and dated

  • 1791
    Robt Adam Archt 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (512x362)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur des lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
King, 2001, p. 161
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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