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  • image SM Adam volume 19/115

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/115

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the observatory, 1767

Aspect

Plan of the basement storey of a circular building, with three entrances, behind which are curved elliptical lobbies, and a central circular room, and the entrances alternate with three windows onto passages to the central circular room, and with segmental recesses on each wall, forming a circular space in each passage, and with paired horse-show staircases on the principal front

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Story (underwritten in pencil) / Wood / Coals

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (304 x 453)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 223
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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