[4] Design for a house, c1790, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Piccadilly at Hyde Park Corner, number unknown, London: unexecuted designs for a house for the 7th Earl of Barrymore, c1790 (5)
      - Designs for a house, c1790, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/110

Purpose

[4] Design for a house, c1790, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (second) storey of a house as Adam volume 32/109, but containing bedrooms and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Principal Story of Lord Barrymores House Piccadilly. Plan of the Bed Chamber Storey (of Lord Barrymores House Piccadilly in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) Water Closet / Lady Barrymore's Powdering Room / Lady Barrymore's Bed Chamber / Maid Servants Bed Room / Back Stairs / Bed Chamber / Bed Room and some measurements given / (and in another hand; possibly Lord Barrymore's own hand) bed Chamber / my / Room Square / Room

Signed and dated

c1790
datable to c1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (309 x 489)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Robert Morison, and with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam, additional inscriptions in another hand, possibly Lord Barrymore himself

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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