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[4] Preliminary design for the walls of the great hall, June 1759, unexecuted
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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
Stillman, 1966, pp. 22, 62
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes
Level
Drawing
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