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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/50

Purpose

[40] Design for a bridge, 1788, executed in part

Aspect

Plan of a three-span bridge with rounded ends to the piers, and with curved abutment walls terminating in quadrangular piers

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan for the Bridge at Kirkdale (and in the hand of William Adam) the seat of / Sir Samuel Hannay Bart with some dimensions

Signed and dated

  • 1/12/1788
    Albemarle Street / 1st Dec.r 1788.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (433x304)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, 2001, Volume 1, p. 138; Volume 2, p. 221
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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