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Reference number

Adam vol.7/60

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a long rectangular panel showing a frieze-like procession of figures with mounted figures at the left-hand side, with a bride and groom, musicians, dancers and a woman and child on the right.

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink in a possibly contemporary hand Town in peace. A marriage great Hall.

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown wash with white heightening, partly oxidised, on brown washed paper 160 x 775 with two vertical fold lines

Hand

Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)

Notes

This composition is part of a series of designs for James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63 that depict scenes and aspects of general life (Adam vol.7/60-67). Several are noted as being for either the Great (as here) or Circular Hall of the scheme; the plan in Adam vol.7/3 depicts three large and several smaller circular halls. Presumably the final plan for the scheme of 1763, never fully finished and now lost, indicated such chambers (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, p.64). The battle and historical drawings are all similar in draughtsmanship and were probably made by Antonio Zucchi (1726 - 95) in the winter of 1762/63.
The figures here are dressed in a characteristic mixture of early seventeenth-century and contemporary costume.

Level

Drawing

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