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  • image SM Adam volume 38/47

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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