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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/15

Purpose

[139] Preliminary design for the walls of the book room, 1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Section, with cornice and dado shown in profile, and showing the elevation for a three-bay chimney wall, with a central chimneypiece ornamented with a frieze of lozenges, and a peltoid shield in the tablet, supporting a clock, candelabra, and tripartite mirror frame, flanked on either side by sofas behind which are further tripartite mirror frames. The wall is articulated by semicircular-headed recesses between Doric pilasters, and the wall is ornamented with roundels and a frieze of lozenges, and with pencil annotations

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Library at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale / 15 (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and pink on laid paper (594 x 496)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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