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Sketch elevations for South and North sides
EDD 51/14 P
Description Sketch elevations for South and North sides
Date 1791
Collection Soane Museum Drawings
Catalogue Number EDD 51/14 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 457663
Scope and Content Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Sketch elevations for the north side Charlotte Square, designed by Robert Adam in 1791, the year before he died, is the crowning achievement of his many works of domestic architecture, and one of the most beautiful large residential squares in Europe. The Lord Provost asked Adam for elevations 'not much ornamented but with an elegant simplicity', and not for the elaborate grandeur of his scheme for the South Bridge that proved too expensive to build. His design of 1791 proved sufficiently restrained. The feus on the north side were offered for sale within days of Adam's death in 1792, and in 1795 the premium of £10.50 offered to the first feuar to roof a house in the square was paid to the builder, David Hay. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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