[2] Design for a house, 1770, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - St James's Square, number 33, London: executed designs for the house for the Hon. George Hobart (later 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire), 1770 (12)
      - Designs for a house, 1770, as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/16

Purpose

[2] Design for a house, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the parlour (ground) storey of a house as Adam volume 44/15, but with the principal entrance in the third bay of the principal front, and with the court and a roof beyond in the rear right-hand corner, and a tripartite window from the central staircase overlooking the court, and containing reception and domestic rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Parlor Story of a House for the / Earl of Buckinghamshire St James's Square (of a House for the / Earl of Buckinghamshire St James's Square in the hand of William Adam and partly underwritten in pencil) / Parlor / Valets Room / Powdering Room / Great Stair / Back Stair / Mr Hobarts Dressing Room / Hall and some measurements given(verso) 3

Signed and dated

1770
datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (481 x 631)

Hand

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

Watermark

XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
Survey of London, 1960, pl. 186c
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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