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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/24

Purpose

[1] Design for the ground floor of a building, 1791-92, as executed

Aspect

Ground plan comprising a central arcade terminating in a principal staircase within a large bow, flanked by wings containing shops with small staircases at the rear

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Trades Hall at Glasgow / (in another hand and underwritten in pencil) Shops / Back Shops / Back Shops / Shop / Passage / Principal Stairs / Stairs to the Cellars / Back Shop / Shop / Shop / Back Shop with some room dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1791-92
    datable to 1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (278x266)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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