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  • image SM Adam volume 43/10

Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/10

Purpose

[7] Design for alterations to the house, c1768-72, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the bedchamber (first) storey of a square house, with a seven-bay principal front, with a central three-bay portico, and with the end bays projecting, and an eight-bay garden front, with the end bays projecting, and with seven-bay side fronts, one of them with the end bays projecting, and the house contains bedrooms and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story of Gunton House in Norfolk / the Seat of Sir Harbord Harbord Bart (of Gunton House in Norfolk / the Seat of Sir Harbord Harbord Bart in the hand of William Adam) / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Passage / Lobby / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Passage / Lady Harbords Dressing Room / Lady Harbords Bed Chamber / Anti Room / Bed Camber / Dressing Room / Wardrobe / Powdering Room / Water Closet and measurements given (verso) 5 / 6 (in pencil) / 7 / 12 (in pencil) / Number 2 (in red pen) / Sir Harboard Harboard

Signed and dated

  • 1768-72
    datable to c1768-72

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (589 x 493)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
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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