[1] Design for a bridge, c.1791, executed

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  - Dalkeith House, Midlothian: executed designs for a bridge and porter’s lodge with gates, and an unexecuted design for a sundial, for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, c.1791-94 (8)
    - Designs for a bridge, c.1791-92, executed to a variant design (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/111

Purpose

[1] Design for a bridge, c.1791, executed

Aspect

Plan of a bridge comprising a single span with a central plinth flanked by two piers, either side of a carriageway with a foot path on one side

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bridge proposed to be built over the Esk at Dalkeithe / (in the hand of William Adam) for his Grace The Duke of Buccleugh / (and in another hand) Carriage way / Foot Path / (verso) (in pencil) Duke of Bucleugh[sic] his Bridge

Signed and dated

c.1791
datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (474x262)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p. 9
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 334-335
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 214
Further literary references in scheme notes

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