[3] Finished drawing for a church, 1791, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Lasswade Church, Midlothian: preliminary design and finished drawings for a church, 1791, unexecuted (6)
    - Designs for a church, 1791, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/83

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a church, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Gallery floor plan of a Greek-cross church with a central circular domed space flanked by galleries, retiring rooms and staircases

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lofting or Gallerys for the Church of Laswade (in the hand of William Adam) / Gallery / Staircase / Retiring room / Gallery / Dome front continued / Gallery / Retiring / room / Staircase / Gallery / (verso) No 5 / These Plans [_ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _] the Back

Signed and dated

1791
Rob^t Adam Arch^t 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including Verdigris and Sepia within a ruled border on laid paper (447x318)

Hand

Adam, Robert (1728--1792)
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Co

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p.21
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 381, 394
King, Volume 2, 2001, p.18
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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