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  • image SM Adam volume 43/37

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/37

Purpose

[3] Design for an unknown house, 1775, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (second) storey of a house Adam volumes 43/35-36, but with no entrance on the principal front, no portico on the garden front, and no tripartite windows in the pavilions, and containing bedrooms

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of a house for / James Alexander Esqr (of a house for / James Alexander Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) Number 7 (in red pen) / 5 / 4 (in pencil) / James Alexander Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    Adelphi 8th. March 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (593 x 496)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi, with additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
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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