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[5] Finished drawing for a circular room within a garden pavilion, 1762, possibly executed
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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.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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