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  • image SM Adam volume 46/181

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/181

Purpose

[4] Design for a cottage, 1780, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (first) storey of a cottage as Adam volume 46/180, but showing the roofs of the single-storey, the apsidal ends of the front block, and the service pavilions at the rear

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Roof / Men Servants Bed room / Roof / Maid Servants Bed room / Roof / Young Gentlemans room / Lobby / Young Gentlemans room / Roof / Bed Chamber / Closet / Roof / Closet / Bed Chamber / Roof and measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 11/12/1780
    11t. Decr. 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (271 x 428)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 260
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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