[5] Finished design 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 33/79

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

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