[7] Finished drawing for a section through the assembly rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

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  - Edinburgh Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh: designs for alterations to the Assembly Rooms, c.1787, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/35

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a section through the assembly rooms, c.1787, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section through the assembly rooms from north to south comprising a two-storey building with two projecting domed areas. The first domed area comprises an ornamented domed ceiling with a central roof light, with fan vaulting and a coffered arch below supported by an entablature and screen of Corinthian columns and with a chimneypiece with an overmantel in the centre of the back wall. Between the two domed rooms is an octagonal lobby area with recessed arches, lit by a small rooflight. The rear domed area contains an ornamented domed ceiling decorated with inset panels below and an entablature supported by a screen of Corinthian columns and with a chimneypiece with an overmantel in the centre of the back wall. There is a loggia on the south elevation comprising a ground-floor arcade, and a first-floor screen of Ionic columns. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Ballroom Lobby and Tea room as proposed to be finished. / (verso) 3

Signed and dated

c.1787
datable to c.1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink, on laid paper within a ruled border (531x332)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

J WHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 10
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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