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[1] Design for an unknown house, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/35
Purpose
[1] Design for an unknown house, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the ground storey of a house, with a central block, five bays across the principal front, with tripartite windows in the end bays, and the central three-bays recessed behind a screen of columns, and the underside of a tapering staircase, and with nine bays across the garden front, with three-bay bows in the end bays, and the central three bays with a portico, and with the central bay blind, and the central block is flanked by two-bay links, three-bay pavilions, with the central bay containing a tripartite window on the principal front, both being blind on the left-hand pavilion, and the central bay being slightly projecting on both principal fronts, and beyond each pavilion is a quatrefoil-shaped court, and the house contains service rooms on this storey
Scale
3/4 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Story of a house for / James Alexander Esqr (of a house for James Alexander Esqr in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Wine in Bottles / Wine in Casks / Area / Butler's Room / Steward's Room / Area / Pantry / Store Room / Beer Cellar / Passage / Housekeepers Room / Servants Hall / Kitchen / Wash House / Larder / Larder / Scullery / Privy / Court and some measurements given (verso) 3
Signed and dated
- 1775
datable to 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a treble ruled border on laid paper (638 x 497)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi, with additions to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
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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