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

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  - Mistley Church, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1776, as executed (11)
    - Design and finished drawing for Mistley Church, c1776, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/69

Purpose

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

Aspect

Section of a two-storey building, flanked by Tuscan porticoes, surmounted by acroteria supporting statuary. There is a central altar ornamented with a roundel and strigilation, and this is surmounted by a tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, flanked by Corinthian columns. This is set within a relieving arch containing a lunette and flanked by Ionic pilasters, with Ionic screens and balconies beyond. Above all this there is a domed ceiling containing a conical oculus, and ornamented with paterae enclosed within wreaths, set within octagonal compartments, separated by arabesques. All this is surmounted by pediments supporting acroteria, and a domed belvedere articulated by Ionic columns, and supporting a weather vane

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

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

Signed and dated

c1776
c1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and Naples yellow washes on laid paper (417 x 277)

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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