[4] Drawing made for publication 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 35/4

Purpose

[4] Drawing made for publication for the Admiralty Screen wall, 1759

Aspect

Perspective of street scene showing the Admiralty Screen as in Adam volume 35/1, but with additional figurative sculptures in the niches and lamps

Scale

measured

Inscribed

Perspective View in Parliament Street and the Screen for the Admiralty

Signed and dated

1759
datable to 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (585 x 432)

Hand

Agostino Brunias (attributed by Rowan)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 34
Rowan, 2003, p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 17 February - 9 May 2015
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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