[2] Finished drawing for a wall of the great dining room (now the saloon and picture gallery), 1759

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Hatchlands, Surrey: executed designs for interior decoration for the Rt Hon. Admiral Edward Boscawen, 1758-59 (15)
    - Finished drawings and a record drawing for the walls of the great dining room (now the saloon and picture gallery), 1759 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/82

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for a wall of the great dining room (now the saloon and picture gallery), 1759

Aspect

North wall elevation with a caryatid chimneypiece, a figurative sacrifice overmantel, flanking arabesque panels, and two doors with grotesque overdoors

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Great Dining Room For The Right Honble Admiral Boscawen (verso) No 3

Signed and dated

1759
Robt Adam Architect 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (526 x 350)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Watermark

JVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
Stillman, 1966, p. 62; Harris, 2007, p. 26
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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