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[1] Design for the hall, 1761, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 27/35
Purpose
[1] Design for the hall, 1761, executed with alterations
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevation of a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular room with an apsidal end, with an arched door at the centre of the three flat walls, and a chimneypiece with volute stiles and military trophy overmantel in the apse. The walls are ornamented with medallions, busts, festoons, aedicular rectangular panels, figurative sculpture, military trophies, a Doric frieze, and octagonal coffering in the semi-dome of the apse
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Sion / See Vol 34/3 (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) and some measurements given (verso) Northumberland / 6 Pieces / pavement / ornament of the hall from No 8
Signed and dated
- 1761
datable to 1761
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (859 x 491)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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