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  • image SM Adam volume 33/11

Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/11

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the south front of a group of prison buildings for Edinburgh Bridewell, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Rear (south) elevation of a group of prison buildings within a hilly landscape. The buildings comprise a two-storey, five-bay central block, behind a single-storey parapet wall that terminates in two-storey, single-bay pavilions. Behind the wall, pavilions and central block are two, two-storey buildings with connecting single-bay pavilions. The central block has a bow end with a conical roof and is decorated with string-coursing and a dentilled cornice. Across the entire elevation are a mixture of square, arched, Diocletian and Venetian windows

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

South front towards the Cannongate[sic] of the New Bridewell proposed to be built upon the Caltoun[sic] Hill at Edinburgh / (in a curator's hand) See Vol 21. 7 / original SA / 2 / (verso) 3 Plans 2 Sections 4 Elevations of the Bridewell at Edinh / 1st Design

Signed and dated

  • 1790-91
    datable to 1790-91

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including cerulean blue, sepia, olive green, Payne’s grey, black, Venetian red and Naples yellow within a ruled border on laid paper (566x283)

Hand

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

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

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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