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  • image SM Adam volume 34/17

Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/17

Purpose

[30] Finished drawing for a three-block house, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Section from east to west through the central block of a three-storey house, with a pitched roof, flanked by two-storey wings with pitched roofs, containing a central staircase, with a domed, conical ceiling, and a back stair to one side

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the House of Great Saxham in Suffolk the Seat of / Hutchinson Mure Esqr (all in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (602 x 490)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, additions to inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Rowan, 1985, p. 48
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 126
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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