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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/20

Purpose

[4] Design for the house, c1764

Aspect

Plan of the attic (third) 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

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Attic Story of Buchanan House one of the Seats / of His Grace The Duke of Montrose (Story of Buchanan House one of the Seats / of His Grace The Duke of Montrose in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Bed Room / Bed room / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Bed room / Passage / Bed Chamber / Closet / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Staircase / Closet / Bed Chamber and measurements given

Signed and dated

  • c1764
    datable to c1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (582 x 422)

Hand

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

Verso

Number 4 (in red pen) / Duke of Montrose

Watermark

JWHATMAN

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

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

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