[7] Finished drawing for a sundial, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
    - Design for a sundial, ND, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/36

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a sundial, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a sundial decorated with winged sphinxes supporting a tapering concave lozenge-shaped pedestal adorned with ram heads, festoons and rosettes with an arabesque panel on the plinth above, supporting a vase-shaped stem with a slab decorated with a Vitruvian scroll above

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Dial for the Duke of Buccleugh / (verso) Dial for the Duke of Buccleugh

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including sepia on laid paper (983x1455)

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p. 9
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 214
Further literary references in scheme notes

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