[1] Finished drawing for the house, 1765-66, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Pall Mall, number 34 (later 25), London: executed designs for the house, for Andrew Millar, 1765-66 (11)
      - Finished drawings for the house, 1765-66, executed with minor alterations (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/17

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the house, 1765-66, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of the basement of a three-bay terraced house, with subterranean vaults to the front and rear, and the house proper being three rooms deep, with a central staircase, containing service and domestic rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

6th (in pencil) / Plan of the Basement Story / Coal Vault for use of Kitchen / Scullery / Pantry / Small Beer / Area / Area / Kitchen / Servants Bed room / Closet / Wine Vault / Housekeepers Room or Wash house & Laundry / Area / Powdering room / Privy / Coal Vault / Coal Vault and measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

c1765-1766
datable to c1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (152 x 474)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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