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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a door showing five rectangular panels with raised nail studs and decorated vorders. Beside this is a profile detail of a panel.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/82
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a door showing five rectangular panels with raised nail studs and decorated vorders. Beside this is a profile detail of a panel.
Aspect
Detail
verso elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in a contemporary hand with various dimensions
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
93 x 205
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Verso
Unfinished design in black chalk for a rectangular relief panel with elaborate border and pediment.
Watermark
trimmed
Notes
This design is for one leaf of a door shown in Adam vol.7/93 and 101, and is possibly one of the basement doors in James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63 (see also the plan and elevation in Adam vol.7/77 and 78).
All may be derived from the bronze doors of the Pantheon, Rome; there were several studies of the Pantheon doors in the Albani Collection (see Campbell 2004, II, p.51).
All may be derived from the bronze doors of the Pantheon, Rome; there were several studies of the Pantheon doors in the Albani Collection (see Campbell 2004, II, p.51).
Level
Drawing
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