[7] Alternative finished drawing for the ground and first floors of Edinburgh High School, 1777, unexecuted

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/30

Purpose

[7] Alternative finished drawing for the ground and first floors of Edinburgh High School, 1777, unexecuted

Aspect

Left: ground-floor plan comprising three rooms opening off a central circular lobby flanked by stairs followed by one large hall lined with engaged piers. There are two porches opening off the staircase lobbies Right: first-floor plan same as ground-floor without the projecting porches and the engaged piers in the common hall

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plans of a new Design for the High School of Edinburgh / Common Hall or Library / 1 School / Vestible / 2^d School room / Common Hall continued / East Staircase / West Staircase / 3^d School room / 5^t School room / or Rectors Class / 4^t School room with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

6/3/1777
Adelphi / 6^th March 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (601x491)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Preliminary designs (pencil) for plans for a school, same as recto, to a scale

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

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

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