[3] Finished drawing for the house, c1764

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  - Buchanan House, Drymen, Stirling: unexecuted designs for a house for the 2nd Duke of Montrose, c1764(?) (5)
    - Designs and finished drawings for the house, c1764 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/19

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the house, c1764

Aspect

Plan of the bed chamber (second) storey of a four-by-nine-bay central block, with a portico of engaged columns across the central three bays on the principal (south) front, and a shallow, central three-bay bow on the garden (north) front, and flanked by the roofs of links, and three-by-five-bay pavilions, with the central three bays slightly projecting

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber Story of Buchanan House one of the Seats of / The Duke of Montrose (of Buchanan House one of the Seats of / The Duke of Montrose in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Store for Malt Hops &c. / Girnel (sic) Room for Flower / Staircase / Passage / Servants room / Servants Room / Servants room / Bed room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Bed room / Passage / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Closet / Dressing room / Closet / Bed Chamber / Staircase / Servants Room / Servants Room / Passage / Servants room / Servants Room / Servants room and measurements given

Signed and dated

c1764
datable to c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1044 x 457)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or William Hamilton, and addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

5 / Duke of Montrose / 5

Watermark

XD&CB within a cartouche D&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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