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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/32

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for the house, 1768

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a house as Adam volume 42/31, but with a central three-bay portico of engaged columns on the principal front, and without the domestic courts to either side

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the one Pair of Stairs Story (on a separate sheet affixed to the drawing) / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Drawing Room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / N:B: The Red Lines shows / the Attick Plan and measurements given (and in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton) James Adam / 1768

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen and pencil on laid paper (544 x 252)

Hand

James Adam, and additional inscriptions in pencil by A.T. Bolton

Verso

Philliphaugh / Esqr / Another design

Watermark

I PORTAL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 132
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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