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  • image SM Adam volume 53/40 (part)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/40 (part)

Purpose

[12] Record drawing for a frieze for the hall, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze, with metopes containing roundels enclosing rosettes and ornamented with enclosed anthemia. This alternates with fluted triglyphs

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Rt Hon.ble W.G. Hamilton / Hall (underwritten in pencil) / (and in pencil, modern curatorial hand, A.T. Bolton) / W.G. Hamilton / 40

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (290 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam, and with inscription in modern curatorial hand, possibly A.T. Bolton

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Miele, 1998, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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