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[24] Finished drawing for the Opera House, showing the Haymarket (east) entrance and principal staircase, oval ballroom and adjoining assembly room, c1789, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 47/7
Purpose
[24] Finished drawing for the Opera House, showing the Haymarket (east) entrance and principal staircase, oval ballroom and adjoining assembly room, c1789, unexecuted
Aspect
Axial section of the opera house from east to west, as SM Adam volume 28/21, but with minor alterations. The roof line is altered and the east wing extended, with an additional colonnaded room above the stairwell. Within the ballroom the suspended lamps are replaced with tripods bearing oil lamps, set between the columns. Figurative roundels ornament the spandrels between the entrances and apses. At the lower level a central arched entrance is introduced and the stove is omitted
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet
Inscribed
Sections across the Opera House shewing the Grand stairways & entrance to the Ballrooms with a section of the Oval Ballroom & one and [?] of the Assembly room (in pencil) / no 7 (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1789
c1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (941 x 597)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson
Verso
Notation, modern curatorial
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Sheppard, 1960, Volume XXIX, (i), p. 249
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Sheppard, 1960, Volume XXIX, (i), p. 249
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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