[3] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Bicton House, East Budleigh, Devon: unexecuted designs for a house and a gatehouse for John Rolle Walter, 1772 (7)
    - Preliminary design and designs for a house, 1772, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/59

Purpose

[3] Design for a house, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (second) storey of the central block as Adam volume 43/58, and containing bedrooms and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber Story. of a house for / John Role Walter Esqr in Devonshire (of a house for / John Role Walter Esqr in Devonshire in the hand of William Adam) / Copy (in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber and some measurements given

Signed and dated

March 1772
Adelphi March 27th. 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (541 x 383)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 3
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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