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  • image SM Adam volume 48/13

Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/13

Purpose

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

Aspect

Third (second) floor plan comprising a central polygonal range with flanking links terminating in pavilions with staircases. The central range comprises a lobby, a physician’s room with apsidal ends, a staircase, a surgeon’s room and a student’s room. The links contain wards with apsidal ends adjoining the lobby and large fireplaces 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 third Storey of Wards for the Infirmary at Glasgow / Bedrooms / Bedrooms / Passage / Water / Closet / 8 steps / Water / Closet / Passage / Assistant / Nurses room / Ward / Surgeons / room / Lobby / Students / room / Physicians room / Ward / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Passage / Water / Closet / Nurses room / Clerks room with some dimensions / (verso) Infirmary Glasgow / (in another hand) Glasgow Infirmary / 5

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (626x514)

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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