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  • image SM Adam volume 50/86

Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/86

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for alterations to the church, 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Part plan and elevation for a church with a crenellated four-storey central tower, with two angle buttresses, and flanked by crenellated single-storey aisles, each with a diagonal buttress, and with traceried windows

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chapple for Edwin Lascelles Esqr / afterwards Lord Harewood (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (459 x 599)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
Mauchline, 1992, pp. 15, 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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