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[19] Design showing a section through one of the houses, 1785
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 38/48
Purpose
[19] Design showing a section through one of the houses, 1785
Aspect
Section through a four-storey, double pile terraced house, with a roof with a double pitch, and a central stack, with a projecting room to the front, with steps leading down to the street level, and with a narrow area at the rear, between the house, and a cellar beneath external stairs leading up to ground level, and with the natural ground level shown as a diagonal dotted line across the building
Scale
bar scale of 7/10 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section through one of the Houses in Leith Street from A to B on the Plan / at Edinburgh (in the hand of William Adam ) / NB. The dotted line shews the slope of the Ground according to Mr. Salisburys levels. / Back wall of Mr Fergusons House / a fair copy of this sent / to Edinr. 12t. July 1785 (verso) 4
Signed and dated
- 1785
datable to 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow wash on laid paper (381 x 495)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Notes
This section running from A to B on the Plan does not appear to correspond with any extant plan within the Adam drawings collection at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 76
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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