[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 4^th in this book

Signed and dated

1/12/1793
Albemarle Street /1^st Dec^r 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

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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