[1] Finished drawing for the extension to the house, c1760-61, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Sherborne Castle, Dorset: unexecuted designs for alterations to the house, interior, a new gateway and bridge for 7th Lord Digby, 1760-67 (16)
    - Design and finished drawings for the extension to the house, c1760-61, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/112

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the extension to the house, c1760-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Part plan of the ground floor of the house, showing the addition of an oval ante chamber, and an octagonal dining room between two single-pile ranges of three bays terminated by an octagonal tower

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of Part of The Right Honble The Lord Digby's house shewing the New intended Dining Room and Antichamber / Antichamber / Dining Room (verso) 3 / 3

Signed and dated

1760-1761
datable to c1760-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey and pink washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (647 x 436)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 165
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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