[17] Design for the cornice for the circular banqueting room, c1770; it is not known if this design was 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)
    - Designs for the cornice and impost for the circular banqueting room, c1770; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/13

Purpose

[17] Design for the cornice for the circular banqueting room, c1770; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a cornice, showing two alternative designs. On the left-hand side there are hexagonal compartments enclosing anthemia and urns or figurative medallions; alternating with square compartments containing busts enclosed within lozenge-shaped frames, and these square compartments are flanked by rosette enclosed within fans of trefoils. On the right-hand side there are connected hexagonal compartments containing calyx enclosed within trefoils and oval figurative medallions, or urns enclosed within hexagons, and between the hexagonal compartments are anthemia and calyx. The whole is surmounted by a band of enclosed oak leaves, a band of acanthus leaves, and a band of lion masks

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling of Alnwick Castle for the Duke of Northumberland (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

1770
datable to c1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, verdigris and Indian red on laid paper (653 x 497)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 1
Harris, 2001, pp. 87, 343
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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