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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/98

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the ground floor of a house, 1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a rectangular house comprising a central staircase with a double-apsidal hall to the front and a central three-bay bow to the rear, flanked by a servants’ hall, and housekeeper’s room, with flanking quadrant links terminating in pavilions with oval-shaped enclosed courts. The links and pavilions have service rooms including a scullery, wash house, larder, water closets, pantry and kitchen, as well as staircases, and the courts have stores for wood, coals, ashes and for feeding fowls, enclosed by screens of columns

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Story of a house for William Douglass[sic] Esqr near Newton Stewart Galloway / North / East / South / West / Feeding fowls / Wood / Coals / Linnen / Closets / Wash house & Laundry / Passage / Closet / Servants Hall / Butlers room / staircase / Hall / Closet / Housekeepers room / Passage / Corridor / Scullery / Kitchen / Larder / Pantry / Wood / Ashes /Coals with some room dimensions / (verso) 5 / 5

Signed and dated

  • 1787
    Robt. Adam Architect 1787.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double-ruled border on laid paper (713x371)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

J Whatman / W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 24
King, 2001, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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