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  • image SM Adam volume 39/46

Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/46

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (first) storey of a central block with a nine-bay principal (south-west) front, and a seven-bay garden (north-east) front, and five bays deep, with a central three-bay canted bow on the garden front, and corresponding to the internal arrangement of the alternative design for the lower register shown in Adam volume 39/44

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Chamber Story 12 feet high / 49 (in pencil) / Blank upper part of / (salon) or dining room / Gallery 11 feet broad / Stairs / Sky Lighted and measurements given

Signed and dated

  • N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (279 x 222)

Hand

Unknown eighteenth-century architect

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

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

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