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[5] Design showing the basement storey of the house, c1761
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/88
Purpose
[5] Design showing the basement storey of the house, c1761
Aspect
Plan of the subterreanean basement storey of a house with a central block, with projecting bays on the principal and garden fronts, and with a central three-bay bow on each side, and containing a cental circular room, and with a service wing connected to the rear
Scale
bar scale of 4/5 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of a House for The Right Honble The Earl of Shleburne fronting Piccadilly and the Green Park (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Servants Hall / Butlers Pantry / Butlers Bed Room / Plate Room / Wine binns / Coal Cellar / Store Cellar / Wine binns / Store Room / Still Room / Powdering room / Coal Vault / Coal Vault / Scullery / Larder / Larder / Kitchen / Court / Small Beer Cellar / Privy / Coal Vault / Ice House and measurements given (verso) 2 / of Lord Shelburne's House / Hyde Park Corner
Signed and dated
- 1761
datable to c1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (595 x 504)
Hand
Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
XD&CB within a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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