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[20] Finished design for the library, c1788, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/11
Purpose
[20] Finished design for the library, c1788, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a building as SM Adam volume 31/18, with minor alterations. The portico of the central building has a frieze of rosette roundels, and there are the arms of the University of Cambridge, flanked by festoons set within the tympanum. The octagonal drum of the belvedere contains Diocletian windows
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for the Library of Kings College Cambridge (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / No 29 (pencil) / faint pencil inscription
Signed and dated
- c1788
c1788
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (1252 x 533)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
Cambridge Selected Plan / 1 / 1 / Adam 31/11 DRAWER 2 31/11 (modern curatorial hand, pencil)
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 173-79; Index, p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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