[8] Design for a passage, probably as executed, c1770

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Bolton House, Southampton Row, London: designs for interior decoration for the 6th Duke of Bolton, June 1770 - August 1777, demolished 1913 (30)
      - Design for a passage, probably as executed, c1770 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/5

Purpose

[8] Design for a passage, probably as executed, c1770

Aspect

Plan of the ceiling and laid out wall elevations with pencil details. The walls and cross vaulted ceiling are divided into four compartments. The bays along the walls are arched and divided by Doric pilasters with grotesques, and ornamented with panels of marbled paper, with trompe l'oeil sphinxes and figurative relief panels, and with pencil annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sketch of a passage for Her Grace the Duchess of Bolton to direct Mr Middleton in the disposition of the papers

Signed and dated

c1770
datable to c1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes on laid paper (384 x 531)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index p. 48
Harris, 1995, p. 71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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