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  • image SM Adam volume 38/68

Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/68

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for the first storey of a chapel, 1778, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a five-bay building, with the central three bays to the front and rear projecting. To the front of the building there is a central tripartite window flanked by further windows. Within there is a colonnaded balcony and an organ. To the rear there is a staircase, an octagonal room, and a rectangular room with a fireplace

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the upper or Gallery part of the Chapel / for the Emmanuel Hospital (underwritten in pencil) / Organ and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • December 1778
    Adelphi / 31.st Dec.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (367 x 506)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 59
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
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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