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Reference number

SM Adam volume 21/92

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for the Shambles and Butter Market, 1761, as executed

Aspect

Rough ground plan and elevation of a two-storey, domed, octagonal tower, arcaded on the ground floor, and containing a staircase, with a semicircular arcade, with a pitched roof, around the rear half of the building, with a rough pencil-drawn arcade, largely cropped away in the bottom left-hand corner

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sir

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (193 x 248)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
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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