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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a long rectangular panel showing in relief groups of figures gathering harvests from fields and trees with horses and ladders. In the foreground to the right are two baskets of fruit.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/65
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a long rectangular panel showing in relief groups of figures gathering harvests from fields and trees with horses and ladders. In the foreground to the right are two baskets of fruit.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Agriculture
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 773 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). Adam vol.7/64-67 is a set of four drawings that have country life as the subject, possibly all intended for the proposed Circular Hall, for which there are other reliefs in Adam vol.7/61 and 63. This panel is the counterpart of Agriculture in Adam vol.7/64 and shows a similar tripartite composition and contemporary costume. The drawings are all similar in draughtsmanship and were probably made by Antonio Zucchi (1726 - 95) in the winter of 1762/63.
Level
Drawing
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