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  • image SM Adam volume 38/72

Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/72

Purpose

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

Aspect

Axial section of a two-storey building with pitched roofs. The principal three-bay block contains a central entrance at the ground-storey level. Above, at the first-storey level, there is a half-height window. The block terminates in turrets containing narrow windows. To the rear there is a one-bay block containing a dog-legged staircase

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

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

Signed and dated

  • c1778
    c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Naples yellow on laid paper (292 x 233)

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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