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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a long rectangular panel showing a frieze-like procession of captives and soldiers leading to a figure on a throne with canopy at the right-hand side. Soldiers and spoils are also depicted.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/62
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a long rectangular panel showing a frieze-like procession of captives and soldiers leading to a figure on a throne with canopy at the right-hand side. Soldiers and spoils are also depicted.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Town in War 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 779 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.
This composition was probably intended to contrast with Adam vol.7/60, Town in peace, in some proposed great hall of the Adam Parliament House. The figures are shown in a modified classical costume.
This composition was probably intended to contrast with Adam vol.7/60, Town in peace, in some proposed great hall of the Adam Parliament House. The figures are shown in a modified classical costume.
Level
Drawing
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