[41] Finished drawing for a bridge, 1780, executed to a variant design

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Culzean Castle, Ayrshire: designs for additions to a castle-style building and its stables and walled gardens, along with a home farm, viaduct, and interior decoration and furniture for David Kennedy, 10th Earl of Cassilis, c.1776-87, executed in part (57)
    - Variant finished drawings for a viaduct and ruined arch, 1780, executed to a variant design (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/11

Purpose

[41] Finished drawing for a bridge, 1780, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a bridge comprising a mixture of square towers, one with a hipped roof, and an octagonal tower, adorned with machicolated cornices, voussoired arches and arched windows and a corbelled bartizan

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Another Design for Cullean Bridge for the / Right Hon^ble The Earl of Cassillis / (verso) 3 / Polloon [_ _ _ _ _] Bridge Earl of Cassilis / Number 2 / (in pencil) 2

Signed and dated

24/3/1780
Adelphi / March 24.^th 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (621x443)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

Footed P

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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