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[3] Design for the second scheme for the building, 1767, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 36/23
Purpose
[3] Design for the second scheme for the building, 1767, unexecuted
Aspect
Ground plan of a seven- by three-bay building, with the central three bays on the principal front slightly projecting, and flanked by a perimeter wall enclosing a court behind, and containing prisons and public rooms (verso) preliminary pencil-drawn plan as on recto
Scale
bar scale of 1 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
2d design (in pencil) / Plan of the Ground story of the Town hall & County Court for Appleby (of the Ground story of the Town hall & County Court for Appleby in the hand of William Adam) / Insolvent Prison / Insolvent Prison / Gaolers Room / Insolvents Bed Room / Condemn'd Hole / Passage / Staircase / Water Closet / Public Store Room or Warehouse / Public Hall for the Merchants & also to serve for a Coffee Room and dimensions given, and room names and dimensions underwritten in pencil (verso) No 3 / No 3 / These Plans go 6th with the Book / (and in pencil) Insolvents Room / Insolvents Room / Gaolers room / Insolvents Bed Room / Condemned Hole / Public Hall / Ware house and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (475 x 289)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
LVG surmounted by cartouche surmounted by fleur de lis
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
Harris, 1971, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1971, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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