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  • image SM Adam volume 29/82

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/82

Purpose

[1] Design for a gothic-style tower, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Plans for a gothic-style tower showing the ground floor with an external stepped entrance, an upper level with a crenelated walkway and a roof plan showing a pyramidal roof

Scale

bar scale of 4 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Plan of The Tower for the Earl of Clanbrassil / (in pencil) Plan of The Tower for the Earl of Clanbrassil (verso) Earl of Clanbrassil / 3 / (in another hand) This to be placed nineteenth / (in pencil) 19 / 19

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (380x510)

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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