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  • image SM Adam volume 30/142

Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/142

Purpose

[21] Finished drawing for a dairy, unexecuted, 1766

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a domed, circular room, with four urn-filled niches, three doors, one window, four curving sideboard tables, and the dome is ornamented with a fan, festoons, and rosettes, and with pencil-drawn annotations in the top left-hand corner

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Dairy at Kimbolton for His Grace the Duke of Manchester and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (360 x 512)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith, William Hamilton, or Giuseppe Sacco, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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