[2] Finished alternative drawing for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted

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  - Eyton House, Ayton, Berwickshire (?): unexecuted designs for a house for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1762-80 (12)
    - Finished alternative drawings for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/44

Purpose

[2] Finished alternative drawing for the house by an unknown architect, N.D., unexecuted

Aspect

Alternative plan of the principal (ground) storey of a central block with a nine-bay principal (south-west) front, and a five-bay garden (north-east) front, and five bays deep, with a central three-bay portico on the principal front, and a central three-bay canted bow on the garden front, flanked by tripartite windows in the end bays, and with a different internal arrangement than in Adam volume 39/43

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

A Plan of the Principal Story Introducing two Apartments / of a house at Eyton / one of the Seats of / the Earl of Bute (of a house at Eyton / one of the Seats of / the Earl of Bute in the hand of William Adam) underwritten in pencil / 45 (in pencil) and measurements given

Signed and dated

N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (374 x 258)

Hand

Unknown eighteenth-century architect, additions to inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 125
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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