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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 27/39

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of an impost, showing connected hexagonal compartments containing alternating oval medallions and urns enclosed within hexagons, and between the hexagonal compartments are rosettes enclosed within fans of trefoils. The whole is surmounted by a band of acanthus leaves, and a band of enclosed acanthus leaves

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Impost for the Circular Room at Alnwick

Signed and dated

1770
datable to c1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (504 x 347)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 1
Harris, 2001, pp. 93, 344
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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