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  • image SM Adam volume 38/71

Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/71

Purpose

[4] Design for the Ordnance Office, c1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section of a two-storey, eleven-bay building with a hipped roof. There is an arcade at the ground-storey and first-storey levels, with entrances in the fifth and sixth bays. The seventh bays are blank, and the remaining bays contain windows. The end bays form turrets

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Ordnance Office (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1778
    c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Naples yellow and pink on laid paper (440 x 267)

Hand

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

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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