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  • image SM Adam volume 33/03

Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/03

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the north front of additions to the College of Justice, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

North elevation of the additions to the College of Justice (including the Advocates’ Library) comprising a three-bay, two-storey building with a hipped roof. The ground floor is rusticated and arcaded with a central tripartite window divided by Tuscan columns. The first floor has a central balustraded Venetian window flanked by windows within pedimented surrounds with consoles, with medallions above. The entire elevation is adorned with a variety of decorative elements including vermiculated panels, inset circles, strigilated panels, and a mixture of geometric, festoon, and enclosed anthemion friezes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

North front of the Advocates Library on the one pair Story and the Writers Library on the Ground floor Edinburgh

Signed and dated

  • 1791
    Robt Adam Architect 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (645x479)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
Brown, 1989, p. 70
Kerr, 1998, pp. 4-7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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