[116] Design for a bridge, 1768

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  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Additions to the park
      - Alternative designs and a finished drawing for a bridge, 1768, drawing 119 as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/7

Purpose

[116] Design for a bridge, 1768

Aspect

Elevation of a bridge, composed of three segmental arches, with medallions in the spandrels, and surmounted by a balustrade, supported by four piers, articulated by Doric columns supporting small pediments, and containing urns, and the piers are surmounted by sculptures, one being a sphinx, and another being a putto riding a sea horse, and with abutments terminating in pedestals supporting lamps, and with a rough pencil-drawn annotation of an entablature in the bottom left-hand corner

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1st Design (in pencil) / 1st Design for Mr Child (in pen in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (1165 x 486)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or J P Laurent, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

4 / 5 / (and on an affixed label) Robert Child Esqr / Bridges

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Rowan, 1988, p. 82
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 224
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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