[5] Design for additions to the house, 1764, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Polton, Lasswade, Midlothian: designs for the enlargement of the house for Mrs Anne Calderwood Durham, 1788 (1)
    - Ardencaple, Helensburgh: executed and unexecuted designs for additions to the house, and the interior, and for unexecuted castle gates for Lord Frederick Campbell, 1762-74 (14)
      - Designs for additions to the house, 1764, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/117

Purpose

[5] Design for additions to the house, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a house as Adam volume 29/116, but containing reception rooms, and a bed chamber and dressing room, and with a hall above the sub hall, which is screened at two ends, and there is no flier showing an alternative arrangement for the staircase

Scale

1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The house of Lord Frederick Campbell in Scotland (in pencil) / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dining Room / Drawing Room / Parlour / Hall and measurements given (verso) Ld F Campbell

Signed and dated

1764
Rt Adam 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (399 x 262)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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