[26] Preliminary design for the passage between the library and the chapel, 1780; 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/17

Purpose

[26] Preliminary design for the passage between the library and the chapel, 1780; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation for part of a wall, showing trefoil-headed compartments, containing staffs supporting shields; and with a window set in a multi-lobed relieving arch, ornamented with lozenges and quatrefoils, with a tablet and shield surmounted by a military trophy

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Only 5 recesses besides the large one done in the original which were slightly shaded & not colourd / Section of one side of the Chapel at Alnwick Castle, from A to B on the Plan (underwritten in pencil) / The Duke of Northumberland (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

05/12/1780
Adelphi / 5t. Decr. 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (662 x 497)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 1
Harris, 2001, pp. 90, 343
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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