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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/6

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for the addition of service wings to the house, 1775-77, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a kitchen wing, with a five-bay principal front, with tripartite windows in the central and projecting end bays, and a circular window behind the central window, and with three-bay canted bows on each side, and with a courtyard behind, enclosed in links which presumably connect with the house

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lord Frederick Campbell at Coombank (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Kitchen and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1775-1777
    date range: 1775-77

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (434 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, addition to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

6 / Number 1 (in red pen) / Lord F Campbell Coombank

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Every Look Speaks': Portraits of David Garrick, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 16 September - 9 December 2003

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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