[3] Finished drawing for an octagonal room within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - La Trappe (later Brandenburg House), Hammersmith, Middlesex: designs for a garden pavilion, possibly executed, and a dressing room chimneypiece for George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe, 1762 (9)
    - Finished drawings for a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/124

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for an octagonal room within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

Aspect

Part plan and section, showing a rectangular apsidal lobby, and an octagonal room with rectangular recesses, windows, a door, and a chimneypiece. The section shows a chimneypiece with tapering Ionic pilaster stiles, a fluted frieze, and oval figurative tablet, supporting a rectangular overmantel mirror frame, surmounted by an urn flanked by winged griffons, and a figurative medallion within a wreath on the wall above. This is flanked by a window, and a rectangular recess on each side, each surmounted by a portrait medallion, and with a frieze of calyx, arabesques, urns, and winged half putti, and the coved ceiling is ornamented with arabesques, anthemia, masks, urns, rosettes and half figures. There is also a rough pencil-drawn plan of the whole building at the bottom of the sheet, showing an octagonal room, and a circular room, either side of a rectangular lobby or portico with three apses on one side, and a colonnade on the other

Scale

7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the Chimney Side of an Octagon Room for The Right Honble The Lord Melcombe In his / Lordships Garden near Hammersmith (In his Lordships Garden near Hammersmith in the hand of William Adam) / Plan of part of the Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1762
R.A. 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash, and pink and yellow washes on laid paper (431 x 593)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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