[4] Finished drawing for alternative designs for the octagonal dining room, c1760-61, unexecuted

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  - Sherborne Castle, Dorset: unexecuted designs for alterations to the house, interior, a new gateway and bridge for 7th Lord Digby, 1760-67 (16)
    - Finished drawings for alternative designs for the octagonal dining room, c1760-61, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/113

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for alternative designs for the octagonal dining room, c1760-61, unexecuted

Aspect

Section of an octagonal room, with a deep relieving arch on each wall, with a soffit ornamented either with octagonal coffering containing rosettes, or arabesques above figurative medallions flanked by festoons. The central bay contains a caryatid chimneypiece supporting an aedicular overmantel containing a landscape scene. To the left is a door with a console doorframe seen in section. To the right are two Venetian windows - one in section. The walls are ornamented with military trophies in the spandrels above the relieving arches, and a frieze of anthemia and calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Octagon Room for / The Right Honorable Lord Digby (verso) Lord Digby

Signed and dated

1760-1761
datable to c1760-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (717 x 457)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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