[7] Finished drawing showing a plan and elevation for the third 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 drawing and record drawing for the third scheme for additions to the building, 1773, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/24

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing showing a plan and elevation for the third scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation similar to the second scheme (Adam volumes 38/23 and 27), but with a shorter exterior curtain wall, terminating closer to the interior buildings at each end, and with no external door in the left-hand side of the curtain wall

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Third Design for Additional Buildings and Outside Wall for the Kings Bench Prison and some measurements given (verso) 4 / 4 / 9 (in pencil) / Number 9 (in red pen) / Kings Bench Prison

Signed and dated

1773
datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (954 x 630)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

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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