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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/49

Purpose

[42] Designs for an entrance gateway, 1786, possibly executed

Aspect

Above- Elevation of an entrance gateway, with piers surmounted by finials, and this is flanked by a wall supporting lattice wrought-iron screens Centre- Elevation of an entrance gateway flanked by pedimented arches and walls supporting latticed wrought-iron screens Below- Elevation of an entrance gateway, with broad paired piers, flanked by walls supporting latticed wrought-iron screens

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Doctor Turton (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • June 1786
    8.t June 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (390 x 275)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

WT

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 172; Index, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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