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Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/75

Purpose

[1] Design for a building, c.1788-93, executed status unknown

Aspect

Plan for the principal floor of a building containing a hall with an apsidal end opening onto a large rotunda with columned entryways, four corner apses, a semi-circular desk and two stairwells. Flanking the hall and rotunda are corridors with stairwells at one end followed by smaller outer rooms. One side has been partly erased

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Plan for the Bank of Scotland / Bank Rotunda / Hall / (in pencil and another hand) bank [_ _ _] with some calculations

Signed and dated

  • c.1788-93
    date of 1788-93 suggested by the Bank’s archivist as detailed in King

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (386x332)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, Daniel Robertson or John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 59
King, 2001, p. 54
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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