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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/39

Purpose

Preliminary design for a cabinet, 28 December 1768

Aspect

Elevation of a four-bay cabinet with upper and lower doors, and with carving to the upper range, including drops of calyx and a palmette, and with a further preliminary design for the carving to the right-hand side

Scale

to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Measures of Spaces betwixt ye Windows of Best Apartment / This Lido shows the exact spaces, the present carving / over the Nich in Lower Dining Room wilt Cover, if it should answer / to be plac’d over ye Glass intended for Best Apartment, twixt ye Windows / Cornice / Cornice / from the floor to ye under part of Cornice 9ft 8 ½ in / and multiple dimensions given to ye floor / Clear Space betwixt the Architraves of Windows / in breadth 6ft 5 inches / & in height from floor to under part of Cornice / 9 feet 8 ½ Inches / Scale one Inch to ye foot / From the floor to under part of Cornice 9ft. 8 ½ Inches and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 28 December 1768
    Supplier(?) 28th. Decr. 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (370x310)

Hand

probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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