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[15] Design for a block of ten terraced houses, 1785
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/47
Purpose
[15] Design for a block of ten terraced houses, 1785
Aspect
Plan of the ground storey of a block of ten terraced houses, with a convex façade. Each house contains a different arrangement of rooms – on this storey containing service rooms, and with shops at the front – and the end houses have bow fronts
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Leith Street Edinburgh (in pencil) / Ground Story of Ten Houses proposed to be Built in Lieth (sic) Street Edinburgh (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / with Shops in front under the Terrace (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Coals / Small Beer / Coals / Kitchen / Wine Cellar / Housekeepers Room / Butlers Room / Scullery / Area / dust hole / Cellar / Cellar / Area / Passage / Kitchen / Housekeepers Room / Shop / Shop / Shop / Parlor / Passage / Scullery / Kitchen / Wine / Pantry / Housekeepers room / Shop / Shop / Area / Servants Hall / Kitchen / Scullery / Wine Cellar / Housekeepers Room / Coal Vault / a fair copy of this / sent to Edinbr 12t July 1785 and some measurements given (verso) 3
Signed and dated
- 1785
datable to 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (715 x 507)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
JWHATMAN and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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