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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/11

Purpose

[112] Design for the library, 1760, executed with alterations

Aspect

Section, with cornice and dado shown in profile, and showing the elevation of a side (east) wall, with a large broken-top pedimented bookcase (the bookcase also shown in plan) flanked on either side by a door. The wall is ornamented with three picture frames and a Doric frieze, with pencil annotations

Scale

2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Library at Kiddleston for Lord Scarsdale / N. del Abbate / Gayp / Wants a picture and some measurement given

Signed and dated

  • 1760
    datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (446 x 348)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias with pencil annotations in the hand of Robert Adam, and with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Harris, 1987, pp. 14, 42
Harris, 2007, pp. 30-31
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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