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  • image SM Adam volume 43/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/54

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the house, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bed chamber (second) storey of a five- by five-bay house, with the central three bays on the principal front slightly projecting, and behind a three-bay portico, and with a central three-bay bow on the garden front, behind a five-bay portico, and containing bedrooms, dressing rooms, and central symmetrical elliptical staircases

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of Sir Thos Acklands House (of Sir Thos Acklands House in the hand of William Adam) / Dressing room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed room / Dressing room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Stairs / Passage / Stairs / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Bed room / Water Closet / Dressing room / Bed Chamber and measurements given (verso) 7

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (596 x 468)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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