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[8] Design for a bridge, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 51/27
Purpose
[8] Design for a bridge, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Perspective of a bridge set within a landscape, composed of a single, rusticated semicircular arch, ornamented with voussoirs, surmounted by an attic with a central tablet surmounted by a pencil-drawn sculpted wolf or dog, and flanked by banks of earth, surmounted by wooden fencing
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Elevation of a Bridge For The Right Honble Lord Frederick Campbell at Coombank in Kent
Signed and dated
- August 1775
Adelphi Augst 15t 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (375 x 404)
Hand
Unknown eighteenth-century draughtsman
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 216
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 216
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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