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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/15

Purpose

[3] Design for a modest neo-classical house (1st scheme), 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (presumably the second) storey of a rectangular house, with seven bays on the principal front, as Adam volume 42/14, but without tripartite windows in the end bays; with three bays on the sides, two of which are blind on either side; and with nine bays on the garden front; and the garden front is flat save a central three-bay portico of pilasters

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Chamber Story of a house for Mr Baron Mure at Caldwell (in the hand of William Adam) / Bed Chamber / Bed room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Powdering room / Closet / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Water Closet / Lobby / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Water Closet / Closet / Powdering room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (594 x 387)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

(2) JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Rowan, 1985, p. 94
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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