[2] Finished drawing for the Admiralty Screen wall, 1759

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - The Admiralty Screen, Whitehall, London: 1759-60, executed (6)
    - Preliminary design, alternative finished drawings, and a drawing made for publication for the Admiralty Screen wall, 1759 (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/103

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the Admiralty Screen wall, 1759

Aspect

Elevation with a central triumphal arch with dolphin relief panels, a balustrade above the cornice, and two sculpted winged seahorses, flanked by closed colonnades of four Tuscan columns with a door bay, and three-bay domed, pedimented pavilions, with minor pencil annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Admiralty / See 105. Vol 9 (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1759
Robt Adam Architect 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1099 x 386)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

LVG and cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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