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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/56

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/56

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the walls of the great hall, June 1759, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough chimney-wall (north wall) elevation with a deep cove, a central chimneypiece and figurative overmantel, flanked on either side by a semicircular-headed apse screened by Corinthian columns. The wall has ornamental panels of grotesque

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a Section for the Earl of Northamptons Hall / at Castle Ashby

Signed and dated

  • June 1759
    4 June 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (219 x 375)

Hand

Robert Adam

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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