[18] Design for the library, c1775, as executed

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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/37

Purpose

[18] Design for the library, c1775, as executed

Aspect

Plan and laid-out-wall-elevations of a room with a tripartite full-height window on one side with a cornice ornamented with crenellations. One wall contains a central chimneypiece with an overmantel mirror set within a relieving arch. The semi-circular head of the arch is ornamented with a medallion and festoons, and all this is flanked by niches containing pedestals ornamented with rosettes, festoons and ram masks and surmounted by globes. Above this there are ornamental panels. The further two walls contain relieving arches flanked by doors and overdoors, one of which contains a preliminary design for a figurative scene

Scale

bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Room at Lady Homes (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (631 x 471)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

3 Plan of a Street Portico & door with 1 inside plan of a Room for Lady Home from (?) inscription obscured by historic repair / Lady Homes Sections / 8 / 5

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 14-15, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 26, 39, 62
King, 2001, Volume I. pp. 287-89, fig. 404
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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