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[8] Design for the library, 1767, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/114
Purpose
[8] Design for the library, 1767, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Section of a rectangular room with a three-bay chimney (north) wall, apsidal ends screened by fluted Corinthian columns, and a compartmental barrel-vaulted ceiling, with a central chimneypiece surmounted by a figurative overmantel painting, flanked on either side by a sofa in an arched recess lined with a tripartite mirror. Variant designs for the sofas and recess either side of the chimneypiece. The apses are lined with bookcases surmounted by rectangular figurative panels. There is a frieze of lions and deer skulls, and the ceiling ornamented with a band of anthemia and tubular flowers, arabesques, medallions, and rectangular and lunette-shaped figurative panels
Scale
bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
2 Kenwood (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (610 x 433)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Watermark
D&BCLVUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, pp. 79-80
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 62
Bryant, 1990, p. 18
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 79-80
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 62
Bryant, 1990, p. 18
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk