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  • image SM Adam volume 11/175

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/175

Purpose

[22] Record drawing for a dairy, unexecuted, 1766

Aspect

Plan of a circular ceiling, with a central rosette enclosed by fluting, a band of guilloche, and a fan, and encircled by enclosed rosettes, festoons, calyx, and anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Dairy at Kimbolton for His Grace the Duke of Manchester and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (355 x 316)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith, William Hamilton, or Giuseppe Sacco, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 197
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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