[16] Finished drawing for a bridge, c1763-64, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex: designs for the house and park for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1763-85 (18)
    - Park: designs for a bridge, the Temple of Victory, and a sundial
      - Finished drawing for a bridge, c1763-64, executed with minor alterations (1)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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