[5] Finished drawing for a section through Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted

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

SM Adam volume 31/28

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a section through Edinburgh High School, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section from north to south of a two-storey building with a central clock tower. The north rooms have simple moulded chimneypieces in them and the first-floor central room, below the clock tower is domed. There is a spiral staircase to the clock tower with a bell at the top. The rooms to the south are more decorative, the ground-floor room is columned and the first floor is at a higher level than the rest of the first floor and contains a central medallion, with a coved ceiling

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of a New Design for the High School at Edinburgh from North to South upon the line A.B on the Plan with some room dimensions and some calculations in pencil. (Verso) 5

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (556x497)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Preliminary design (pencil) for a section of the school, same as recto, to a scale

Literature

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

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Drawing

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