[5] Finished design for a church, 1791, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [5] Finished design for a church, 1791, unexecuted

Browse

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

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/79

Purpose

[5] Finished design for a church, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Lateral elevation of a two-storey church. Same as SM Adam volume 33/80 but with a large arched window in the centre and a steeple at one end

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lateral Elevation of a new design for Laswade Church (in the hand of William Adam) / (verso) Church at Laswade near Edin^h (in a different hand) / Elevations 2 Ground Plan 1 Section / from No 11

Signed and dated

1791
Rob^t Adam Architect 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (450x307)

Hand

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

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk