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[7] Design for the riding school, 1763, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/50
Purpose
[7] Design for the riding school, 1763, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a two-storey, three-bay pedimented central block, with a central aedicular door, surmounted by a fan-light, and flanked by niches, and the central block is flanked by one-storey, one-bay pedimented pavilions, with balustraded windows. And a section through the end of the two-storey riding house, showing three arched windows, surmounted by a pitched roof, and flanked by one-storey pavilions, with lean-to pitched roofs
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section through the Riding House (in the hand of William Adam) and underwritten in pencil / Elevation of the Riding House at Edinburgh (in the hand of William Adam) and underwritten in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1763
datable to 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash, yellow and pink washes on laid paper (494 x 503)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme note
For a full list of literature references see scheme note
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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