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  • image SM Adam volume 29/20

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/20

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the walls of the great hall, June 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Chimney-wall (north wall) elevation as drawing Adam volume 54/1/56

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Side of a Great Hall For The Right Honourable The Earl of Northampton at Castle Ashby (verso) 4

Signed and dated

  • June 1759
    datable to June 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (715 x 508)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

IV / VDL and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 34, Volume II, Index p. 6
Stillman, 1966, pp. 22, 62
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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