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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/46

Purpose

[52] Design for the walls for the fishing room, 1770, executed

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a square room, with a Venetian window, a door and two segmental-headed urn-filled niches on the wall opposite, and further niches on the side walls either side of a chimneypiece surmounted by candelabra and a mirror on one wall, and a rectangular sculpture-filled recess on the other. The walls are ornamented with figurative and grisaille panels

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan and Section of the Fishing Room / and Boat house for Lord Scarsdale / 54 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and dimensions given (verso) 4 / This to be placed Fifteenth / Fishing Room & Boat house at Keddlestone

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (812 x 617)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 81
Harris, 2006, pp. 25-26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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