[3] Design for the parlour, 1758-63, unexecuted

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  - Fonthill Splendens, Tisbury, Wiltshire: unexecuted designs for the house, interior decoration, and a bridge for Alderman William Beckford, date range: 1758-70 (9)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/32

Purpose

[3] Design for the parlour, 1758-63, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room with a two-bay window wall, with the windows within deep, segmental relieving arches, adjacent to a one-bay window wall, with the window within a segmental relieving arch, and with a chimney wall opposite, with the chimneypiece within a segmental relieving arch, and opposite the two-bay window wall is a wall with two doors, surmounted by roundel overdoors, and with each door within a deep, segmental relieving arches

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Parlour at Fonthill the Seat of / William Beckford Esqr (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

1758-1763
Date range: 1758-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (586 x 493)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or Laurent-Benoit Dewez, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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