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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design with guidelines showing part of the floor pattern for a hall in three parts. The central rectangle is inlaid with royal titles and dates in Latin; either side are other patterns, columns and pilasters.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/10
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design with guidelines showing part of the floor pattern for a hall in three parts. The central rectangle is inlaid with royal titles and dates in Latin; either side are other patterns, columns and pilasters.
Aspect
Plan
verso plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink with a calculation at top right side
Lettered in pencil within the floor pattern AB REGNI EXPUGNATI DCCL. / AD. MDCC. LXXV / GEORGIUS REX. MAG. BRIT. FRAN. & HIB. REX
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil
189 x 265
Hand
James Adam
Verso
Pencil drawing of plan incorporating an oval hall
Notes
This drawing is part of a group of drawings of various floor patterns for James Adam's Parliament House scheme, see Adam vol.7/5-9, 11-12, 72 and 74-76. The detail of this aspect of the scheme would suggest that these drawings were executed in the 1763 period. The inlaid lettering in the floor here refers to the reign of George III and, puzzlingly, to 'AD. MDCCLXXV' (1775), possibly suggestingit is a revision of the scheme after James Adam returned to London at the end of 1763, and perhaps at the time of Robert Adam's 'Last Design' (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, pp.56-7). Even later, in 1793, James Adam was involved in making plans for Westminster (see J. M. Crook, The History of The King's Works, vol.VI, 1973, p.513).
Level
Drawing
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