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[3] Finished drawing for a bridge, 1793, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 48/15
Purpose
[3] Finished drawing for a bridge, 1793, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation, plan and section of a five-span bridge with piers with pyramidal-roof starlings and dome-topped pedestals, terminating in arched abutments with staircases. The elevation is adorned with enclosed rosettes, bottle-neck balustrading, keystones, cornices, festoon panels, and dolphin-tail lamps
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
(In the hand of William Adam) Design of a Bridge proposed to be built over the Clyde opposite the Salt marker Street Glasgow / (in another hand) propposed[sic] greatest hight[sic] of the water / supposed ordinary hight of the water / Carriage Way 20 feet wide / level foot way 5 feet wide with some dimensions / (verso) Glasgow Bridge / (in a different hand) Glasgow Bridge / (in a different hand) no 1 this plan goes 4th in this book
Signed and dated
- 1/12/1793
Albemarle Street /1st Decr 1793 –
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including cerulean blue and pink within a ruled border on laid paper (1260x462)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam or John Robertson
Watermark
Footed P
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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