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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design showing unfinished plan for a circular baldacchino with four columns standing on six steps within a hemisphere.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/68
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design showing unfinished plan for a circular baldacchino with four columns standing on six steps within a hemisphere.
Aspect
Plan
verso detail
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil
403 x 541, with vertical fold line
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Verso
Unfinished design in pencil for the top of a pedimented doorcase surmounted by a royal crown; another, also unfinished, chalk version of this royal doorway is on the verso of Adam vol.7/102. Also on sheet are two unfinished panel details.
Notes
This is the plan for the elevation of a royal baldacchino in Adam vol.7/70. It was intended to cover a throne in one of the halls in James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1763. There is part of a plan for this in Adam vol.7/76.
Level
Drawing
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