Unfinished design for a window in a segmental pediment supported by two faces, one male, one female, on a large console with a plain panel at the base. To the left of the sheet is the same design in profile.

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Robert and James Adam travel drawings
- Adam Volume 7

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Reference number

Adam vol.7/172

Purpose

Unfinished design for a window in a segmental pediment supported by two faces, one male, one female, on a large console with a plain panel at the base. To the left of the sheet is the same design in profile.

Aspect

Elevation, detail

Signed and dated

Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen 310 x 213

Hand

James Adam, Office of

Notes

The window frame is an enlarged version of that shown in the upper storey of the theatre elevation in Adam vol.7/170. The principal departure is in the elevation of the base panel (see Adam vol.7/173).
The first parliament of the reign of George III began in 1760 and this theatre scheme belongs to that period, and is probably contemporary with James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63; like that scheme it may have been begun before he left London for Italy in 1760.

Level

Drawing

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