[2] Record drawing showing a plan for the first scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - King's Bench Prison, Bench Walk (now McCoid Way), Southwark, London: unexecuted designs for additions to the building and enclosing walls, 1773 (8)
    - Finished drawings and record drawings for the first scheme for additions to the building, 1773, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/28

Purpose

[2] Record drawing showing a plan for the first scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 38/22

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

First Design of Additional Buildings & Outside Wall for the / King's Bench Prison (all in the hand of William Adam) / First Design of Additional Buildings and Outside Wall for the King’s Bench Prison (affixed on a small separate sheet of paper) / (verso) 10 (in pencil) / Number 10 (in red pen) / 2d / [cropped]gs Bench Prison

Signed and dated

08/04/1773
Adelphi 8th April 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (889 x 509)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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