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  • image Adam vol.7/9

Reference number

Adam vol.7/9

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design showing a columned floor plan of entwined circles for a rectangular hall with apsidal ends, as part of a larger and unfinished scheme. Beside this on the sheet is a circular detail and part of a cross detail.

Aspect

Plan and details

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, grey wash 186 x 312, small rectangular pices of the sheet at bottom and top right corner have been cut out

Hand

James Adam

Notes

This drawing is part of a group of drawings of various floor patterns for James Adam's Parliament House scheme, see Adam vol.7/5-8, 10-12, 72 and 74-76. The detail of this aspect of the scheme would suggest that these drawings were executed in the 1763 period. The room shown here is similar to that in Adam vol.7/7. The careful and painstaking draughtsmanship is typical of James Adam.

Level

Drawing

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