Lot 243
SIR ROBERT LORIMER (1864-1929) & OTHERS
TWELVE ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FOR 'BRIGLANDS', RUMBLING BRIDGE, 1898-1909
Auction: 25 March 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
ink and watercolour, various sizes, sold with all faults, not subject to return Inscriptions on each plan as follows 1. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Alterations & Additions for J Avon Clyde Esq K.C Ground Floor Plan No. 2 Bottom right - R.S Lorimer A.R.S.A ARCHT 49 Queen St Edinr Nov 07 Pen and watercolour, 35 x 59 cm 2. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Alterations & Additions for J Avon Clyde Esq K.C First Floor Plan Sheet No. 3 Bottom right - R.S Lorimer A.R.S.A ARCHT 49 Queen St Edinr Nov 07 Pencil, pen and watercolour, 61 x 33 cm 3. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Alterations & Additions for J Avon Clyde Esq K.C Second Floor Plan, Sheet No. 4 Bottom right - R.S Lorimer A.R.S.A Archt 49 Queen St Edinr Nov 07 Pencil, pen and watercolour, 60 x 35cm 4. Bottom right - Proposed new bathroom at the lodge to Briglands for Lord Clyde Leslie Grahame-Thomson & Assoc, Chartered Architects, 6 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh 3, dated Jan 1956 Pen and watercolour, 47.5 x 84 cm 5. Bottom right: R.S Lorimer, A.R.S.A Archt 49 Queen St, Edinburgh, May 1909 Briglands Rumbling Bridge for J Avon Clyde, ESQ K.C Record Plan of Drains Black and red ink, 63 x 74 cm 6. Plan of additions and alterations of Briglands 1906 Bottom right: James Mitchell (?) Coloured pencil, 55.5 x 75 cm 7. Briglands Rumbling Bridge Alterations & Additions for J Avon Clyde Esq K.C First floor plan sheet no.3 Bottom right - R.S Lorimer A.R.S.A ARCHT 49 Queen St Edinr Nov 07 Pen and watercolour, 34 x 62 cm 8 Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Alterations & Additions for J Avon Clyde Esq K.C Second Floor Plan No. 4 Pen and watercolour, 34 x 62 cm 9. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Half inch details no. 6 Top middle - "This is one of the drawings referred to in my estimate dated 5th Jan 1898", signed below "William McQuillam(?)" Bottom right - R.S. Lorimer, A.R.I.B.A 49 Queen St Edinburgh Pencil, watercolour, 61 x 72 cm 10. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge Half inch details no. 5 Top middle - "This is one of the drawings referred to in my estimate dated 5th Jan 1898", signed below "William McQuillam(?)" Top right - R.S. Lorimer, A.R.I.B.A, architect, 49 Queen St Edinb Pencil and watercolour, 70 x 75 cm 11. Top right - Briglands Rumbling Bridge J. Avon Clyde ESQ Proposed pavilion, walls and out-buildings no 29 Bottom right - R.S Lorimer A.R.I.B.A Archt, 49 Queen St, Edinr 28:11:99 Black ink, 64 x 71 cm 12. Top left - Briglands Rumbling Bridge ? scale elevations and sections no 7 Bottom right - RS Lorimer, A.R.I.B.A, 49 Queen Street, Edinburgh, 23:12:97 Ink and watercolour, 47 x 66 cm (12)
Footnote
Note: Originally a small Georgian country house, Briglands was dramatically extended and enhanced in the late 19th and early 20th century for James Avon Clyde, the Edinburgh advocate and later judge, Lord Clyde.