[4] Design for the interior of the saloon, c1769, thought to be as executed

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  - Alnwick Castle, Northumberland: designs for interior decoration and buildings in the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1769-83 (36)
    - Alternative preliminary design and designs for the interior of the saloon, c1769, 27/36 and 39/16 thought to be as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/16

Purpose

[4] Design for the interior of the saloon, c1769, thought to be as executed

Aspect

Part wall elevation, showing a chimneypiece with ogee-shaped linings, pilaster stiles, and a frieze of enclosed anthemia, and with a large square overmantel frame. The walls are ornamented with lozenges enclosing alternating calyx and anthemia below the dado, and with quatrefoil-shaped fluting above the dado as a ground for two rectangular trophy panels flanking a rectangular portrait; with a frame ornamented with anthemia, arabesques and a coat of arms, and the room has a frieze of intersecting roundels forming flowers

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 3 feet

Inscribed

Chimney side of the Saloon at Alnwick Castle The Duke of Northumberland (The Duke of Northumberland in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1769
datable to c1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (521 x 454)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 1
Harris, 2001, p. 86
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 262
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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