[3] Design for the Shambles and Butter Market, 1761, as executed

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  - High Wycombe Shambles and Butter Market (now the Little Market Hall), Buckinghamshire: 1761, executed (3)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/64

Purpose

[3] Design for the Shambles and Butter Market, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Plan of the upper register and rear elevation of a two-storey, domed octagonal tower, containing a staircase, with a semicircular arcade with a pitched roof around the rear half of the buidling, and with a low parapet wall topped by spikes between each arch of the arcade, and with small half-height windows in the upper register

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Back Front of a New Design for the Shambles and Butter Market / of High Wycomb / Plan of the lost over the Shambles / at High Wycomb (in the hand of William Adam) / Plan of the Loft over the Butter Market and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (492 x 605)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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