[10] Finished drawing for the rear elevation, c1772-79

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)
    - Alternative designs for the building, c1772-79, executed with alterations (13)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/2

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for the rear elevation, c1772-79

Aspect

Elevation of the north (rear) front of a two-storey, eleven-bay building, with the central seven bays forming a bow, surmounted by a drum and dome, and with the end bays projecting, and all of the windows on the first storey in the second through to the tenth bays sre Venetians and contained within relieving arches, and with pedimented windows in the end bays

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the North Front of a Building for the Register Offices in Scotland and some measurements given (verso) 2

Signed and dated

1772-79
datable to c1772-79

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (620 x 438)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

XD&CB within cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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