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SM Adam volume 31/12

Purpose

[27] Perspective view of King's College and Chapel, St Margeret's Church, Provosts Lodge and the public library, c1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective view from the west of King’s College Chapel, Clare Hall and St Margaret's Church. With proposed designs for the library and Senate House as SM Adam volume 31/11 and the west front of the quadrangle as SM Adam volume 31/4

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

West Views of part of Kings College & Chapel, Clare Hall, S.t Margarets Church with part of the front of the new Design for the Provasts (sic) Lodge Hall etc. & South front of the new Designed Building for the Publick Library /of the University under which the Printing Office & other apartments are proposed (underwritten in pencil) / No. 33 (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1788
    c1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (685 x 456)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

2 / 2 / A copy of this given to Mr Stevens / 20.t May 1789 / (13) Adam Plan Chest Drawer 2 (modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 173-79; Index, p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 53-54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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