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[10] Alternative design for the saloon and sofa, 1771, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 50/55
Purpose
[10] Alternative design for the saloon and sofa, 1771, unexecuted
Aspect
Section through a room, showing a wall elevation, with a frieze of banded laurel leaves, surmounted by a coved ceiling, ornamented with urns supported by turned pedestals, connected by festoons, and alternating with octagonal medallions, rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and a winged figure, and the vault is surmounted by a segmental lantern or roof light, and against the wall is a central pencil-drawn chimneypiece, flanked by a pencil-drawn dado rail
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Section of a Room for Sir George Colebrooke (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1771
datable to 1771
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and pink on laid paper (510 x 642)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
4 / 15 (in pencil) / Sir G Colebrooke
Watermark
XD&CB within a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 180
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 180
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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