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  • image SM Adam volume 19/126

Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/126

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a circular room within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed

Aspect

Part plan and section, showing a rectangular apsidal lobby, and a circular room with windows, a door, and rectangular recesses. The section shows a chimneypiece with console stiles ornamented with coin moulding, a fluted lining, a frieze of arabesques and anthemia, and surmounted by urns, and with an oval overmantel mirror frame surmounted by a wreath and festoons. To either side are a window and recess, each surmounted by a rectangular panel containing an urn flanked by winged griffons, and with a frieze of festoons and rosettes, and a domed ceiling ornamented with festoons, enclosed rosettes, urns, anthemia, and a fan containing figures

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing a Circular Room For The Right Honble The Lord Melcombe In his Lordships Garden at Hammersmith (In his Lordships Garden at Hammersmith in the hand of William Adam) / Plan of one part of the Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    Robt Adam Architect 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash on laid paper (432 x 601)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 39
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
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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