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[14] Design for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 39/89
Purpose
[14] Design for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a half-sunk basement storey of a nine-bay central block, flanked on either side (north and south) by a three-bay link, and a three-bay pavilion
Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Plan of the Sunk Storey of Eaton Park / one of the Seats of the Earl of Grosvenor [one of the Seats of the Earl of Grosvenor in the hand of William Adam] / Kitchen / Scullery / Pastry / Cooks Room / Stewards Dining Room / Larder / Larder / Servants Room / Pantry / Butlers Room / Servants Hall / Housekeepers Room / Store Room / Staircase / Evidence Room and Steward Writing Room / Dairy / Scullery to Dairy / Wine Vaults, Salting Room / Pedlar Hall / Staircase / Still Room / Coffee Room / Coffee Maids / Maids Room / Passage / Servants Room / Servants Room / Laundry / Wash House and some dimensions given (verso) 4
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (744 x 505)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JVILLEDARY LVG and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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