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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/25

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the second floor of a group of prison buildings for Edinburgh Bridewell, 1790-91, unexecuted

Aspect

Second floor plan of a group of prison buildings comprising a central block, flanked by two courtyards enclosed on each side by work rooms, with an infirmary at one end and a bedlam at the other, and at the top by a D-shaped range of work rooms with a central corridor division (linking to a guardroom) to form two courts. There is a chapel at the bottom, flanked by a house for the surgeon and chaplain. Rooms include a kitchen, store rooms, nurses rooms, offices for the work mistresses, guards and head keeper

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Second floor of the Bridewell / (and in the hand of William Adam) at Edinburgh / (in another hand) Nurses / room / Infirmary / Nurses room / Work Room / Work room / Work Room / Closet / Closet / Work Room / Closet / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Closet / Keepers / Closet / Closet / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Keeper / Keeper / Guard room / Messengers / Guard / Work Room / Work Room / Closet / Closet / Work / Mistress / Work / Mistress / Work Room / Work Room / Closet / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Closet / Closet / Work Room / Nurses room / Bedlam / Nurses room / Closet / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Work Room / Storeroom / Kitchen / continued / Storeroom / Under Cook / Upper Cook / Store room / Head / Keeper / Head / Keeper / Work / Mistress / Work / Mistress / Chapel / Surgeon / Chaplain with some room dimensions / (verso) 8 / Bridewell / 1st Design

Signed and dated

  • 1790-91
    datable to 1790-91

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (628x478)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, John Robertson, or John Paterson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, Vol. 2, 2001, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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