[3] Finished drawing showing an elevation 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 38/21

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing showing an elevation for the first scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a crenellated curtain wall, with a three-storey, three-bay central block, with a central door, being the only opening on the ground storey, and the window above the central door is within a relieving arch, and the central block is flanked by three-bay circular towers, and beyond are two-storey six-bay links, with windows in the first storey, and beyond are two-and-a-half-storey, three-bay square towers, further six-bay links, then three-storey, three-bay circular towers, thirteen-bay links, and further circular towers

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation of the Wall for the first Design of the King's Bench Prison (underwritten in pencil) (verso) 1 / 1

Signed and dated

1773
datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (796 x 325)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Astley, 2000, pp. 34-35
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's Castles, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 June - 16 September 2000
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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