[8] Design showing the second storey of the house, c1761

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  - London
    - Hyde Park Corner (site of 145-146 Piccadilly), London: unexecuted designs for a house for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne, c1761 (9)
      - Preliminary designs and designs for the house, c1761, unexecuted (9)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/91

Purpose

[8] Design showing the second storey of the house, c1761

Aspect

Plan of the bedroom (second) storey of a house with a five-bay projection on the principal and garden fronts, and a large central circular space screened by columns. This storey is accessed by an elliptical backstair behind the central circualr space (verso) unfinished pencil drawing of the plan shown on the recto

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Bed Room Story of a house for The Right Honble The Earl of Shelburne / fronting Piccadilly and the Green Park (all in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Powdering room / Dressing room / Bed Chamr / Bed Chamr / Dressing room / Lobby / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamr / Anti room / Bed Chamr and measurements given (verso) 5 / [Num]ber 17 (in red pen) / Shelburne House Hyde Park Corner and an additional inscription rendered illegible by being heavily crossed out

Signed and dated

1761
datable to c1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (591 x 504)

Hand

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

Watermark

D&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 130
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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