[9] Design for the hall, 1773, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/68

Purpose

[9] Design for the hall, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Plan and laid-out wall-elevations of a hall. The principal entrance is flanked by narrow windows and paired Doric columns. Above the entrance there is a frieze of paterae and a fan light ornamented with a part-patera, anthemia, arabesques, calyx, and an outer band of fluting. To the right of the entrance there is a central chimneypiece with capitals containing paterae, and a frieze ornamented with ram masks, festoons, and a central tablet containing an urn. The chimneypiece is surmounted by a figurative panel, and it is flanked by doorways with semi-circular overdoors ornamented with wreaths crossed with bows and arrows. There is a frieze of enclosed fluting, with a central roundel depicting military trophies above, and a further frieze of rosettes and ram masks linked by festoons. The elevation opposite is ornamented with a central roundel depicting military trophies, and the elevation opposite the principal entrance contains two further doorways with friezes containing rosettes and ram masks linked with swags. Above the doorways there is a frieze of enclosed fluting, and two further roundels depicting military trophies

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of the Hall / (and in the hand of William Adam) / Watkins Williams Wynns House St James Square / no.1 / No. 3 / N.o 2 / No. 6 / No. 4 / No. 5 / faint pencil inscription / 76 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

September 1773
Adelphi Sep.r 16.t 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (454 x 515)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 276
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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