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[12] Record drawing for the library, c1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 50/46
Purpose
[12] Record drawing for the library, c1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Laid out wall elevations for a rectangular library, with a three-bay window wall, articulated by Doric pilasters, and with bookcases in the window piers, and with a central chimneypiece opposite, with volute stiles, and a rectangular overmantel mirror frame, flanked by bookcases, and doors with roundel overdoors, all articulated by Doric pilasters, and the sidewalls are also articulated by Doric pilasters, and have a door to one side, with a roundel overdoor, and bookcases beside, and the whole room has a frieze of anthemia, and acanthus leaves, above a sub-frieze of festoons, and rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Section of Lord Cliffords Library at Ugbrooke (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1766
datable to c1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (592 x 493)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
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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