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  • image SM Adam volume 41/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/12

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for the house, date range: 1762-80, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a cellar, with dug-out windows, a loggia on the principal front, and a bow on the garden front, and containing an oval staircase. And plan of a garret, with a bow on the garden front, and containing an oval staircase

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Cellars of Eyton House the Seat of the Earl of Bath (the Seat of the Earl of Bath in the hand of William Adam) / Ale Cellar / Small Beer Cellar / Small Beer Cellar / Strong beer Cellar / Cellar for Bottled Wines / Wine Cellar / Wine Cellar / Wine Cellar / Plan of the Garrets 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 (1159 x 442)

Hand

Adam office hand, with additions to inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
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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