[4] Finished drawing for the second (bedchamber) storey, c1771, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Finished drawings including plans and a longitudinal section for the house, c1771, as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/103

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for the second (bedchamber) storey, c1771, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the second storey of a five-bay house with an irregular exterior wall to the east and with rooms facing to the south, west and north. A staircase is shown in the centre, and there is an additional closet wing to the north-east containing a further room and adjoining staircase

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The Plan of 2 Pair Stairs floor Apsley house Hyde park conner (sic) for the Lord Chancellor

Signed and dated

c1771
c1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (318 x 402)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

Adam volume 32/101 - 32/103 are not dated, but Lea highlights the probability they were completed after July 1771, when the plot was extended to the north and west following additional land leases made to Lord Apsley on the 13th July 1771. The plans show how the line of the south wall remains skew, and Lea suggests that this is perhaps due to the line of the park wall.

Lea notes that much of the second storey survives unaltered, enough to surmise that it was executed as designed.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 43
Lea, 2005, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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