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Reference number

Adam vol.7/173

Purpose

Unfinished design for a window frame showing a herm supporting a plain entablature on a decorated lintel supported by a console.

Aspect

Elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pencil 209 x 193

Hand

James Adam, Office of

Notes

This window may be compared with Adam vol.7/172, and like it with those shown in the upper storey of the theatre elevation in Adam vol.7/170.
The first parliament of the reign of George III began in 1760 and this theatre scheme belongs to that period, and is probably contemporary with James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63; like that scheme it may have been begun before he left London for Italy in 1760.

Level

Drawing

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