[20] Finished design for the library, c1788, unexecuted

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  - King's College, Cambridge, designs for a chapel altar, new college buildings and a library, 1768-88, unexecuted (28)
    - Designs and finished drawing for the first scheme for the library c1788, unexecuted (3)

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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

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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