[14] Design for a dining room, 1778, possibly executed

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  - Mistley Hall and Village, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1774-82 (34)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/52

Purpose

[14] Design for a dining room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan and laid-out wall elevations of a dining room, with a canted bay with semi-circular headed windows at one end. Opposite this, there is a chimneypiece, with Doric pilaster styles, ornamented with volutes terminating in acanthus leaves. The frieze is ornamented with rosettes and a central tablet. This is flanked by preliminary frames and doorways with cornices with capitals containing urns, and a frieze of anthemia. The door frame, chair and skirting rails are ornamented with bands of moulding. The room has a frieze of figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing masks, with further moulded bands above. One short end contains a further doorway, flanked by frames, with further frames opposite

Scale

bar scale of 6 1/2 inches to 20 feet

Inscribed

Eating Room (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Dining Room Mistley Hall (pencil)

Signed and dated

Feb 1778
Adelphi / 2.d Febry 1778.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (697 x 652)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

number fifteen (brown ink) / Mistley Hall- Richd Rigby Esqre Design of [__] House / 3 / Mr Rigby (pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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