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[1] Finished drawing for the library, 1764, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 43/3
Purpose
[1] Finished drawing for the library, 1764, unexecuted
Aspect
Section through a rectangular room with a three-bay chimney (north) wall, compartmental segmental vaulted ceiling, and three-bay apsidal ends, and with a small ante room to the left-hand side containing a sculpture-filled niche. The central bay contains a caryatid chimneypiece and rectangular figurative overmantel within a relieving arch. Each bay is articulated by a relieving arch, and the chimneypiece is flanked by bays containing bookcases surmounted by busts and urns. The ceiling is ornamented with arabesque and figurative panels and medallions
Scale
bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for finishing one side of the Library for Kenwood House in Middlesex. The Seat of The Right Honble Lord Mansfield (verso) 3 / 3
Signed and dated
- 1764
James Adam Archt 1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen, wash and pink and Naples yellow washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (892 x 361)
Hand
James Adam
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Bryant, 1990, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 119
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Bryant, 1990, p. 18
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 119
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
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