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[5] Unfinished design for a bridge, 1764, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 51/25
Purpose
[5] Unfinished design for a bridge, 1764, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a bridge, composed of a single rusticated, segmental arch, with enclosed lion masks in the spandrels, with a fluted frieze, surmounted by a balustrade, and supported by two rusticated piers, containing urn-filled niches, and ornamented with rectangular rinceau panels, and with curved abutments terminating in pedestals, one of which is ornamented with a pencil-drawn spandrel of vermiculated rustication
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design of a Bridge for the Right Honourable Lord Henley Lord High Chancellor of England proposed to be Built / at his Lordships Seat of the Grange in Hampshire. The Arch Spans 70 feet Rises 24"6 (verso) 1 / Number 13 / Bridge for Ld Chancellor Henley
Signed and dated
- 1764
datable to 1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (659 x 491)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 218
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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