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  • image SM Adam volume 32/63

Reference number

SM Adam volume 32/63

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for the drawing room, 1758-59, as executed

Aspect

Section showing a coved ceiling and the elevation of the chimney-wall (west wall). The chimneypiece has a broken-topped pediment overmantel with female terms, and is flanked by doors with a segmental pediment

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Drawing Room for General Bland at Thistleworth / Section of the Drawing room (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1758-1759
    datable to 1758-59

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink and Naples yellow washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (640 x 392)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, and title inscription in the same office hand with an addition by William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 18
Stillman, 1966, p. 62
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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