[4] 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 29/116

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of the ground storey of a small, H-shaped house, with additions to enlarge and regularise the building, with a seven-bay principal front, with the end two bays on either side projecting, and with a large staircase on either side, a kitchen, and a sub hall screened at one end, and with a flier showing an alternative arrangement for the left-hand staircase, with a corridor across one end

Scale

1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The house of Lord Frederick Campbell in Scotland (in pencil) / Stairs / Passage / Stairs / Kitchen / and some measurements given verso) Ld F Campbell

Signed and dated

1764
Rt Adam 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash on laid paper (398 x 260) (flier 102 x 153)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Watermark

LVG and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche / IV

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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