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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/75

Purpose

[8] Design for a castellated house, 1794

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a cross-shaped nine-bay house, with the central five bays projecting on each front, with square corner turrets at the corners of each side, and circular corner turrets on the projecting portion of the principal front, and a three-bay canted bow at the centre of the garden front

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Storey of a house for Mr Stevenson [of a house for Mr Stevenson in the hand of William Adam] / Door for fetching Casks / Stair / Closet / Wine cellar / Hs Keepers Storeroom / Bed / Closet / Servants Hall / Press Bed / Plate / Butlers Pantry / Ale & Cider cellar / Passage / Hs (sic) Keepers Room / Pantry / Kitchen / Door / Pantry / Closet / Dairy / Beer Cellar / Stair / Larder / Covered Way and some dimensions given (verso) No 3

Signed and dated

  • 1794
    Albermarle Street / 26 July 1794

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (463 x 295)

Hand

James Adam

Watermark

cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 166
For a full list of literature references.

Level

Drawing

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