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Reference number

SM Adam volume 36/51

Purpose

[2] Design for the library, 1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and wall elevations of a long, quadrangular library with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. There are columns separating the room into three spaces, and walls lined with bookcases with Tuscan columns flanking windows, chimneypieces and panelled doors. Above the chimneypiece is a relief panel containing a scene with figures and there is a continuous moulded cornice and dado rail

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of the Library at Cullen House One of the Seats of the Rt. Hon.ble The Earl of Findlater (underwritten in pencil) / (verso) (in pencil) Copy a part of this

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (907x530)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, J. P. Laurent or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

D & C BLAUW with a cartouche surmounted by a fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
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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