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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/79

Purpose

[8] Alternative preliminary design for the pavement for the gallery, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a pavement following the footprint of the gallery as in Adam volume 41/76. The central circular room contains a central circular fan, enclosed within a bands of Vitruvian scroll, octagonal coffering, and guilloche, and with fans in the niches, and either lozenges or enclosed rosettes in the spaces between the rooms, and the flanking rectangular rooms contain a central oval fan, enclosed within a lozenge-shaped frame ornamented with lozenges, encircled by four enclosed rosettes, and framed by rectangular frames ornamented with lozenges, fret, and guilloche, and the apse at the end of the room contains a fan ornamented with lozenges

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Pavement for the Room of Antiques at Newby the Seat of William Weddell Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil (verso) Mr Weddell / 7

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (982 x 525)

Hand

Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Stillman, 1966, p. 79
Beard, 1978, p. 62
Middleton, 1986, p. 53
Harris, 2001, p. 356
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 263
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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