[27] Finished drawing for a three-block house, 1779, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Great Saxham House, Suffolk: designs for alterations, rebuilding and decorating for Hutchinson Mure, 1775-9 (32)
    - Designs for a new house following the fire, 1779
      - Finished drawings and record drawing for a three-block house, 1779, unexecuted (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/22

Purpose

[27] Finished drawing for a three-block house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the garret of a house with a square central block, with a central window on the principal and garden fronts, and containing garret bedrooms accessed by the back stairs

Scale

bar scale of 9/10 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Garrets of the House Great Saxham / in Suffolk the Seat of Hutchinson Mure Esqr (of the House Great Saxham / in Suffolk the Seat of Hutchinson Mure Esqr in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Garret Room / Landing of Stair / Garret Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1779
datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (503 x 317)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 126
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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