[8] Design for a house, 1781, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Projects known only by patron
  - Samuel Smith: unexecuted designs for alterations and additions to a house, 1780-81 (11)
    - Alternative preliminary designs, and designs for a neo-classical house, 1781, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/104

Purpose

[8] Design for a house, 1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a three- by three-bay house, with a central tripartite door accessed by tapering steps, behind which is a hall and half-turn staircase, flanked by rooms; and with a one- by two-bay link range to the rear, containing a half-turn back stair and larder, and giving access to a four- by two-bay rear range containing a kitchen and brew and wash house

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of a house for Mr Smith / First Story (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Brew and Wash house, Scullery &c / Kitchen / Larder / Passage / Back Stairs / Servants Hall / Great Stairs / Butler’s Pantry / Book Room / Hall / Dining-room / A and measurements given and some rough calculations in pencil (verso) 5

Signed and dated

07/04/1781
April 7t. / 1781.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (287 x 474)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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