[33] Design for the dressing room, as executed with alterations, 1761

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/104

Purpose

[33] Design for the dressing room, as executed with alterations, 1761

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a square room with a screen of paired Ionic columns on the wall opposite the chimney-wall. There is a pencil-drawning of a Venetian window in the bottom left-hand corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Section of a Room for Willm Drake Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) / Drawing Room (in pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (607 x 599)

Hand

Robert Adam, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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