[14] Finished drawing for variant designs for Pinford Bridge, 1767, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Sherborne Castle, Dorset: unexecuted designs for alterations to the house, interior, a new gateway and bridge for 7th Lord Digby, 1760-67 (16)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for variant designs for Pinford Bridge, 1767, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/20

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for variant designs for Pinford Bridge, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite bridge, with three segmental arches ornamented with a Vitruvian scroll frieze, enclosed rosettes in the spandrels, a balustraded parapet with a central sculptural panel, and supported by four piers, one pyramid-topped, containing aedicular, rectangular, urn-filled recesses, on stepped starlings, with curved abutments terminating in miniature piers. With pencil annotations including a detailed drawing of a pier in the bottom right-hand corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Another Design for Lord Digby / Another Design for Lord Digby (in feint pencil) (verso) 3 / 3 / 3 / Number 9 / Lord Digby Dorsetshire / 3

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1254 x 424)

Hand

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Smith, 1995, pp. 15, 17
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 204
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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