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Reference number

SM Adam volume 30/61

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for the building and interior decoration, c1772

Aspect

Axial section through a building as Adam volumes 30/59-60 and 30/62, showing the flat end, with niches within the recesses to either side, and part of the entrance portico on the right-hand side, with the same decorative scheme as Adam volumes 30/59-60, but showing the rise of the barrel vault against the flat wall, ornamented with medallions and festoons, and with a central chimneypiece, surmounted by a fluted rectangular overmantel mirror frame, ornamented with a wreath, festoons, and candle branches, and flanked by decorative wall panels ornamented with figure-of-eight wreaths

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Inside of Loyds Coffee House (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 3

Signed and dated

  • c1772
    datable to c1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a double ruled border on laid paper (610 x 490)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
The Lloyds log, 1955, p. 10
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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