[5] Finished drawing for a bridge, c.1791, executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 34/112

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a bridge, c.1791, executed

Aspect

Section through a bridge within a landscape showing the head of the arch followed by the profile of the external walls of a pier containing pedimented niches with fluted Doric columns, rusticated walls, and a dentilled cornice at parapet level

Scale

bar scale of one inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Center of the Arch / (verso) a Bridge for the Duke of Buccleigh[sic] at Dalkeith

Signed and dated

c.1791
datable to 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including Naples yellow and Cerulean blue on laid paper (477x274)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within 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

Level

Drawing

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