[28] Perspective view of King's College and Chapel, public library, Provast's Hall and Lodge, 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)
    - Perspective views of King's College and Chapel, public library, Provast's hall and lodge, c1778 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/13

Purpose

[28] Perspective view of King's College and Chapel, public library, Provast's Hall and Lodge, c1788, unexecuted

Aspect

Perspective view from the east of King’s College Chapel with proposed designs for the Provost's Lodge and Hall as SM Adam volume 31/1 and 31/5, the north front of the quadrangle as SM Adam volume 31/2, and proposed designs for the library and Senate House as SM Adam volume 31/11 and 31/18

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

East view taken from Trumpington Street of Kings College & Chapel Shewing the front of the Senate House proposed to make a part of the South front of the Publick Library for the University, The North front of the new Hall Schools & Lodge for the Provast which forms the / North side of the Quadrangle of Kings College, Gibbs Building with intended alterations, forming the West side & the Chapel the South side of the said Quadrangle in the distant is seen the end of the Chapel belonging to Clarehall and in Trumpington Street is represented the [_ _ _ _ _] Wall Gates Lamps etc. [_ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _] to(?) enclose(?) the Ground belonging to Kings College & to the University [_ _ _] from rail between Kings College Chapel & the new Library is [_ _ _ _] (obscured) as a fence between the University Garden and that [of] K[ings] C[ollege] (cropped)

Signed and dated

c1788
c1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (1010 x 672)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

A copy of this given / to Mr. Stevenson / Cambridge (pencil) / Copies given to Mr Stevenson- (pencil) / 3 / DRAWER 2 (modern curatorial hand, pencil) / (faint inscription) 1996 (modern hand, pencil)

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 173-79; Index, p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53-54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

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