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Competition design for a public gallery awarded the Gold Medal of the Parma Academy in 1763, copies 1763-c.1765 or later
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Reference number
SM D4/11/2
Purpose
Competition design for a public gallery awarded the Gold Medal of the Parma Academy in 1763, copies 1763-c.1765 or later
Aspect
[5] Cross SECTION UPON THE LINE EF and THE PRINCIPAL FACADE
Scale
A Scale of English Feet (3/10 in to 10 ft approximately)
Inscribed
Inscribed as above, (over entrance) PHILIPPO PARM.PLACE.ET GVAS. DVCI / BONARVM ARTIVM FAVTORI MVNIFICO and (verso) 39
Signed and dated
- 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pencil within double ruled and sepia wash border on coarse laid paper, with three old patches (610 x 915)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
(footed) P
Notes
Soane had the elevation on this drawing copied for his Royal Academy Lecture VIII, No.45 [SM 18/7/6]. A variation was that the four windows in Dance's drawing [SM D4/11/6] were substituted for the single window at each end seen here. Some liberties were taken with the statues which are not always as shown in either of Dance's own elevations.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.14; E Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: his interiors, 2001, fig.319.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.14; E Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: his interiors, 2001, fig.319.
Level
Drawing
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