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[16] Finished drawing for a bridge, c1763-64, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 51/21
Purpose
[16] Finished drawing for a bridge, c1763-64, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan and elevation of a bridge set within a landscape, with a large central segmental arch flanked by smaller segmental arches, surmounted by a balustrade, and supported by four piers. with pyramid-topped starlings, surmounted by roundels, and above each pier on the balustrade is a quatrefoil-shaped opening, and with curved abutments terminating in pedestals
Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Bridge for Sir John Griffin Griffin at Audley End in Essex (in the hand of William Adam) / Plan of the Bridge and some measurements given in pen and pencil (verso) Number Ten (in red pen) / Sir John Griffin Griffin / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) Note / Carried out modified / no cornice, Balusters, Paterae / Graceful lines / A.T.B.
Signed and dated
- c1763-64
datable to c1763-64
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil wash and pink wash on laid paper (643 x 485)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam, and annotations in the hand of Arthur Bolton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
Harris, 2007, p. 181
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2007, p. 181
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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