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  • image SM Adam volume 48/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/12

Purpose

[4] Design for the first floor of a building, c.1791-92, as executed

Aspect

Second (first) floor plan comprising a central polygonal range with flanking links terminating in pavilions with staircases. The central range comprises a lobby, a manager’s room with apsidal ends, a staircase, and two business rooms. The links contain wards with an apsidal end adjoining the lobby and a large fireplace at the other end, with bedrooms, water closets and nurses’ rooms beyond

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the second Story of Wards for the Infirmary at Glasgow / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Back stairs / 8 steps / water / Closet / Passage / Assistant / Nurse / Ward / Pold / Accomplant / Clerk / Pold / marble / Managers room / Ward / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Passage / Water / Closet / Nurses room / Clerks room / (in pencil) Pediment with some dimensions / (verso) no 4 / 4

Signed and dated

  • c.1791-92
    datable to c.1791-92

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (626x525)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly John Robertson

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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