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Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/11

Purpose

[1] Designs for alterations to a house, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey, of an end of terrace house, with a four-bay principal front, with a door to the left-hand side, and a five-bay garden front concealing a yard to the right-hand side, and with five windows along the side elevation, and containing service rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Ground Story of a House for General Fitzroy (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / (and in pencil) Kitchen / laundry & wash house / Butlers room / Servants dressing (?) room / Servants Hall / Servants room / Cellar / housekeepers room / Area / housekeeping store room

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (358 x 504)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 134
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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