[9] 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 42/105

Purpose

[9] Design for a house, 1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a house as Adam volume 42/104, but with no front door, and with each range containing bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber Story (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) 4 / 23 (in pencil) / Number 23 (in red pen) / house for Mr Smith

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled pencil border on laid paper (295 x 475)

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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