[29] Design for Briesley (or Brizlee) Tower, 1777, as 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)
    - Preliminary designs and designs for Briesley Tower (popularly known as Brizlee Tower), 1777, Adam volumes 19/156-158 as executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/157

Purpose

[29] Design for Briesley (or Brizlee) Tower, 1777, as executed

Aspect

First-storey plan and rear diagonal elevation as Adam volume 19/156, but showing the niches on the ground storey containing figurative sculpture

Scale

bar scale of 2 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Diagonal Front of the Tower for Briesley / (and in pencil) 1 pair / 2 pair / 3d pair / 4t pair / 5t pair and some measurements given in pen and various elements are inscribed with pencil letters

Signed and dated

1777
1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (407 x 612)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Fleming, 1958, p. 79
Beard, 1978, p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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