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[8] Finished drawing for the house, date range: 1762-80, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/13
Purpose
[8] Finished drawing for the house, date range: 1762-80, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a five- by five-bay central block, with a three-bay loggia on the principal front, and a three-bay bow on the garden front, and containing an oval staircase, and flanked by five-bay links containing semicircular courtyards, and one five- by seven-bay pavilion containing stables, and one five- by five-bay pavilion containing domestic offices
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Story of Eyton House the Seat of the Earl of Bath (the Seat of the Earl of Bath in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Coach house / Stable / Stable / Boiler to warm Water / Boiler to warm Water / Court / Coach house / Stable / Stable / Corridor / Court / Place for Boots / Powdering room / Smoking Room / Place for Brushes / Stewards Room / Servants Hall / Passage / Valets Room / Passage / Great Stair / Butlers Pantry / Charter Room / Sub Hall / Butlers Room / Corridor / Court / Wood & Coals / Gyle (sic) house / Wash house / Kitchen / Scullery / Larder / Cooks Pantry / Court / Porters Lodge / Brew house / Still Room / Store room / Housekeepers Bed Room and measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1762-1780
date range: 1762-80
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1158 x 441)
Hand
Adam office hand, with additions to inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Verso
4
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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