[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 / 3^rd / School Room / Staircase / 5^th / School room / or Rectors Class / Staircase / 4^th / School Room / Plan of the Ground floor of a New Design of the High School of Edin^r / Common Hall & Library / East passage / West passage / 1^st / School Room / Vestibule / 2^nd / School room with some room dimensions. (Verso) 8 / (in another hand) This to be placed Fifth / (in another hand) High School Edin^g

Signed and dated

8/10/1776
Adelphi Oct^r 8^th 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

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