[5] Design for the attic storey of a house, possibly executed, c1786

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Conduit Street, London, (unknown number), designs for a house, offices, and a garden porch, for Sir John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, possibly executed, c1786 (11)
      - Designs for a house, possibly executed, c1786 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/100

Purpose

[5] Design for the attic storey of a house, possibly executed, c1786

Aspect

Plan of the attic storey of a three-bay building, containing bedrooms and closets. There is a small staircase, which leads to the second storey, and there is a light well, comprised of a conical oculus, for the principal staircase below. To the rear of the building, there is the footprint of the four-bay building beyond

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Plan of Lord Delavals House Conduit St (underwritten in pencil) / Plan of the three pair Story / Bed room / Closet / Area / Closet / Passage / Serv.ts Bedroom / Do[_ _ _] room / Bed Chamber / (and in pencil) all the Walls should [_ _] Red are [_ _ _] all those [_ _ _ _] (cropped) and tinted (?) Black [_ _ _] Walls & Partitions

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (237 x 456)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

(cropped) [R]ear Plans to 17 with the Book / No 17

Watermark

PORTAL & BRIDGES

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 423
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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