[16] Design for the large parlour (later the dining room), as executed, 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)
    - Design for the large parlour (later the dining room), as executed, 1761 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/105

Purpose

[16] Design for the large parlour (later the dining room), as executed, 1761

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room with a three-bay window wall, and opposite is the chimney wall, with doors flanking the chimneypiece, and an urn-filled semicircular-headed niche in a side wall

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For Willm Drake Esqr / Buckinghamshire (in the hand of William Adam) / Large Parlour / for Wm Drake Esqr / Buckingham Shire (in pencil) / 4 and some dimensions given (verso) Wm Drake Esq Buckinghamshire

Signed and dated

1761
datable to 1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (650 x 582)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 62
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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