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  • image SM Adam volume 49/7

Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/7

Purpose

[8] Design for a door frame, for the staircase c1762-63, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation and pier section of a door with an architrave surmounted by a segmental pediment and ornamented with acanthus leaves, festoons, weaponry, and the door is surmounted by a roundel panel containing portrait busts of the King and Queen in profile. The pier section shows the outline of the moulding

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design for Contracting the Door at Top of Staircase in the Queen's House

Signed and dated

  • 1762-1763
    date range: 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (382 x 493)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Colvin, 1976, p. 137
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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