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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/90

Purpose

[24] Design for a church, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the west end of a two-storey, three-bay pedimented church, with three acroteria, and a central door, surmounted by a Diocletian window, and within a relieving arch, flanked by niches, over which are rectangular panels containing rosettes and festoons
  • image SM Adam volume 44/90

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

End of a Church for Mr Steward Mackenzie (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (174 x 199)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith and William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 67
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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