[2] Finished drawing for the elevation of the north front of Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted

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  - Edinburgh (Royal) High School, High School Yards: designs for a school, 1776-77, unexecuted (8)
    - Designs for Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/27

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the elevation of the north front of Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Front (north) elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay building with a central clock tower. There is a simple arched entrance with steps. The first floor comprises a central Venetian window flanked by Tuscan columns supporting an entablature with a frieze decorated with enclosed rosettes, and a pediment. This is repeated in the outer bays but with plinths surmounted by statues instead of pediments. There is a continuous moulded string course below the first floor. The clock tower is adorned with a fluted frieze and pediment on the first tier, followed by a clock with a moulded cornice above, the third tier comprises an Ionic columned screen followed by a narrower top tier, with a domed roof and weathervane

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

North Front of a New Design for the High School of Edinburgh ~

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (613x501)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, II, 1922, p. 11
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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