[4] Design showing a plan of the third storey, 1772, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Floors Castle, Kelso, Scottish Borders: unexecuted designs for the house and a gateway and cottage for the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, 1772-77 (23)
    - Designs for a Classical house (1st scheme), 1772, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/16

Purpose

[4] Design showing a plan of the third storey, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the third storey of the central block, as Adam volume 37/14, but containing bedrooms, dressing rooms, a library, and a billiard room

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the third Story of Floors Castle / Dressing Room / Bed Room / Bed Room / Library / Bed Room / Bed Room / Dressing Room / Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Great Stairs / Billiard Room or Anti Chamber / Gentlemens Dressing Room / Bed Chamber / Lady's Dressing Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1772
datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (437 x 298)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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