[1] Preliminary design for a bridge and flanking buildings, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Possibly North Bridge, Edinburgh: design for a north bridge and flanking buildings between Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns, ND, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 4/21

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a bridge and flanking buildings, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective sketch of a bridge with sculptural groups on the terminating walls, leading to an open piazza flanked by two L-shaped three-storey buildings with central pedimented porticos on each front. The other (rear) end of the bridge is flanked by tall tenements, with five-storey towers

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (315x190)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Sketch plan of a bridge flanked by vaults and buildings on each side, with a road and outline of another building in the foreground

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

The verso is now inaccessible as the drawing has been stuck down, however, an image of it is included in Rowan’s Robert Adam’s Ideas for the North Bridge in Edinburgh (2004).

Literature

Rowan, 2004, pp. 34-39
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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