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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design showing what are possibly wall panels decorated with rosettes and incorporating royal symbols of a harp, winged unicorn and lion, around a rectangular window.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/12
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design showing what are possibly wall panels decorated with rosettes and incorporating royal symbols of a harp, winged unicorn and lion, around a rectangular window.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Fenestra
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil
280 x 549, folded with one vertical fold line
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Watermark
Villandry
Notes
Although the note 'fenestra' would indicate that this is a design for a wall rather than a floor pattern, the iconographical programme seems to be the same as the group of drawings of various floor patterns for James Adam's Parliament House scheme, see Adam vol.7/5-11, 72 and 74-76. The detail of this aspect of the scheme would suggest that these drawings were executed in the 1763 period. The composition and hand may be compared with Adam vol.7/72, and both may be based on the Salle des Sibille in the Vatican in Rome by Pinturrichio (1452-1513).
Level
Drawing
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