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  • image Adam vol.51/39

Reference number

Adam vol.51/39

Purpose

Design for a three-bay bridge with elliptical arches and gothic balustrading between obelisks and crocked finials. Below are two plans.

Aspect

Elevation and two plans

Scale

scale: 10ft to 1/2inch

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably c.1758

Medium and dimensions

Pen, ink framing line263 x 446

Hand

Office of John Adam

Notes

In the opinion of A. A. Tait, this drawing relates in time and place or subject to those contained in Adam volume 7.This is probably an alternative, and rejected, design for the Sea or Gothic Bridge at Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland, begun in 1758. The executed design - which collapsed in 1772 - was engraved for Vitruvius Scoticus, as designed by John Adam (see I. G. Lindsay & M. Cosh, inveraray and the Dukes of Argyll, Edinburgh, 1973, pp.136/7). At Blair Adam there is a design for a five-bay gothic bridge by Robert Adam dated 1753 (BA 465).

Level

Drawing

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