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  • image SM Adam volume 35/51

Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/51

Purpose

[36] Design for a bridge, 1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan, elevation and section of a bridge with lozenge-shaped piers and sloped starlings, and curved abutment walls terminating in circular piers. The bridge is rusticated to its fronts and adorned with a band of enclosed rosettes on the piers. There are sphinxes on the outer pedestals

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Plan of the Bridge at Kirkdale / (verso) no 9 / Plans go in 9 into the Book

Signed and dated

  • c.1788
    datable to c.1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and Naples yellow on wove paper (528x316)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, 2001, p. 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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