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  • image SM Adam volume 41/68

Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/68

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for Mistley Church, c1776, as executed

Aspect

Section of a two-storey, three-bay building, with a hipped roof, and a domed ceiling supporting a conical oculus. The ceiling is ornamented with rosettes enclosed within octagonal compartments, flanked by arabesques. There is a central balcony ornamented with festoons, set behind an Ionic screen. This is flanked by semi-circular headed windows and Ionic pilasters. The central building is flanked by single-bay towers and Tuscan porticoes, all surmounted by domed belvederes, supporting weather vanes. The tower to the left contains a lunette, and is lit from above by a lightwell and oculus. The tower to the right forms the chancel and contains an altar surmounted by a frame, with a lunette window and domed ceiling above. The ceiling is ornamented with festoons and a band of enclosed flora, formed with rosettes and calyx, and this is separated by a figurative roundel

Scale

bar scale of 1 5/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Mistley Church (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • c1776
    c1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash, pink and Naples yellow washes on laid paper (436 x 298)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 23

Level

Drawing

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