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  • image SM Adam volume 48/14

Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/14

Purpose

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

Aspect

Fourth (third) floor plan comprising a central polygonal range with flanking links terminating in pavilions with staircases. The central range comprises a circular operation with a screen of columns, and a staircase. The links contain wards with a large fireplace at one end, with bedrooms, water closets and nurses’ rooms beyond

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the fourth Story of Wards for the Infirmary at Glasgow / Bedroom / Bedroom / Water / Closet / Passage / Water / Closet / Passage / Clerks room / Nurses room / Ward / Operation room / Ward / Bedroom / Bedroom / Passage / Water / Closet / Passage / Water / Closet / Nurses room / Assistant with some dimensions / (verso) no 6 / no 6 / These Plans for 3rd in this Book / Glasgow Infirmary

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (625x521)

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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