[8] Design for a bookcase, 1767

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  - Polton, Lasswade, Midlothian: designs for the enlargement of the house for Mrs Anne Calderwood Durham, 1788 (1)
    - Ardencaple, Helensburgh: executed and unexecuted designs for additions to the house, and the interior, and for unexecuted castle gates for Lord Frederick Campbell, 1762-74 (14)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/215

Purpose

[8] Design for a bookcase, 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular bookcase, with solid doors in the lower register, ornamented with cable moulding, rosettes, and calyx. The upper register is divided by a band of Vitruvian scroll, and has doors containing wire or leaded glass. There is a frieze of patera and fluting, and a tablet of festoons, bows, an enclosed rosette, and military trophies, all surmounted by a bust and two urns

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Bookcase for The Right Honourable Lord Frederick Campbell

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including cerulean blue on laid paper (324 x 421)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly J.P. Laurent or Giuseppe Sacco

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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