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  • image SM Adam volume 52/92

Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/92

Purpose

[14] Preliminary design for the niche head in the hall, c1771-72, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a niche head, ornamented with a band of rosettes enclosed within lozenge-shaped frames, and drops of calyx forming lozenges; with a band of Vitruvian scroll, a band of rosettes, bows and festoons, another band of Vitruvian scroll, and a band of oval paterae enclosed within hexagons

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Nich head Sir Rowland Winns Hall and some measurements given (verso) Sketch at / Northampton / Friday evening

Signed and dated

  • c1771-72
    datable to c1771-72

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (212 x 197)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, p. 134
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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