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  • image SM Adam volume 29/30

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/30

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing showing a plan of the garrett (second) storey for the first scheme, c1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the garret (second) storey of a house as Adam volumes 29/27-29, but showing no links, the roof of most of the central block, save the various towers which contain bedrooms, and with servants' bedrooms at this level in the wings

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

A (in pencil) / Plan of the Garretts and Roofs / of Oaks Castle one of the / seats of the Earl of Derby (of Oaks Castle one of the / seats of the Earl of Derby in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / Servants Bed room / Servants Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bed room / Passage / Bed room / Servants Bed room / Servants Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bed room / Bed room / Bed room / Passage / Bed room

Signed and dated

  • c1777
    datable to c1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (649 x 478)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Rowan, 1985, p. 102
Rowan, October 1985, p. 678
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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