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[1] Finished drawing for the ground and first floors of Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/31
Purpose
[1] Finished drawing for the ground and first floors of Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted
Aspect
Upper: First-floor plan comprising a full-width hall followed by a central round room with four apses flanked by an east and west passage, followed by three school rooms separated by two staircases
Lower: Ground-floor plan, same as the first-floor plan with the addition of porches either side of the east and west passages and engaged piers in the common hall
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the second floor of a New Design for the High School of Edinburgh / Common Hall continued / East Passage / West Passage / 3rd / School Room / Staircase / 5th / School room / or Rectors Class / Staircase / 4th / School Room / Plan of the Ground floor of a New Design of the High School of Edinr / Common Hall & Library / East passage / West passage / 1st / School Room / Vestibule / 2nd / School room with some room dimensions. (Verso) 8 / (in another hand) This to be placed Fifth / (in another hand) High School Eding
Signed and dated
- 8/10/1776
Adelphi Octr 8th 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (466x643)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Verso
Preliminary design (pencil) for the school clock tower as in SM Adam volume 31/24-27, not to scale
Literature
Bolton, II, 1922, p. 11
Further literary references in scheme notes
Further literary references in scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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