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  • image SM Adam volume 34/77

Reference number

SM Adam volume 34/77

Purpose

[4] Design for a section through a mausoleum, 1790, as executed

Aspect

Axial section through a single-storey building with a barrel-vaulted roof, wall panelling, and a columned entrance on one side. The different colour washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section from West to East through the Mausoleum for Westerkirk. / (and in the hand of William Adam) The Seat of Sir James Johnstone Bart with some dimensions / (verso) […]erkirk Reduced Plans

Signed and dated

  • 10/03/1790
    Albemarle Street. / 10th March 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink, lemon yellow and cerulean on laid paper (460x303)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, John Robertson or John Paterson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 30
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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