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[3] Finished drawing for the house, 1768, unexecuted
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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.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 127
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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