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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a battle scene on a beach in front of a fortified town to the left, with figures embarking from boats on the right. In the background is a naval engagement.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/48
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a rectangular panel showing in relief a battle scene on a beach in front of a fortified town to the left, with figures embarking from boats on the right. In the background is a naval engagement.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand secondo; and in pencil in a different hand Landing at Luisburgh Augt. 1758
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening on brown washed paper
178 x 470
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Notes
This composition is the second in a series of reliefs of contemporary and historic battles (Adam vol.7/47-59), all intended to be part of a programme of iconographical decoration for James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63. The drawings are probably all by Antonio Zucchi (1726-95), with his characteristic use of brown paper. The pencil identification and dating of each historical scene is probably in an early nineteenth-century hand.
As in the previous composition, Adam vol.7/47, the figures are in contemporary dress and uniforms.
As in the previous composition, Adam vol.7/47, the figures are in contemporary dress and uniforms.
Level
Drawing
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