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  • image SM Adam volume 38/52

Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/52

Purpose

[9] Design for the riding school, 1763, as executed

Aspect

Side elevation of a two-storey, ten-bay riding house, with a pediment seen in profile on the principal front, and a pitched, tiled roof, and in front of the riding house is a one-and-a-half-storey, descending to one-storey, ten-bay lean-to pavilion with a pitched roof. And an axial section through the full length of the riding house, showing the two-storey interior, with niches along the walls on the ground storey, and half-height windows in the upper register, surmounted by a pitched roof, and with the lobby, surmounted by a upper roof, at one end

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Long Section through the Riding house at Edinburgh (in the hand of William Adam) and underwritten in pencil / Side front 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 (573 x 486)

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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