[4] Preliminary design for the library, c1763, executed with alterations

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- Country houses
  - Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex: designs for the house and park for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1763-85 (18)
    - House: designs for the library, little drawing room, great parlour, great drawing room, and a dressing room
      - Preliminary design for the library, c1763, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/56

Purpose

[4] Preliminary design for the library, c1763, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a T-shaped room, with a shallow cove, and with a central recessed canted bow on one side, the windows in the bow surmounted by medallions and festoons, and flanked by niches, and oval mirror frames, surmounted by rectangular figurative panels, and opposite is a wall with a central chimneypiece, with Doric engaged column stiles, and a Doric frieze, surmounted by a rectangular overmantel mirror frame, and flanked by large rectangular frames, overdrawn in pencil by tripartite, pedimented bookcases, and flanked by doors, with square figurative overdoor panels, and with five-bay, pedimented bookcases, articulated by Doric pilasters on each end wall, and surmounted by a rectangular figurative panel

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir John Griffin Griffin (in the hand of William Adam) / (and in pencil) Article 16 / 2 Sheets / 2nd Drawing Room / [ _ _ _ ] Drawing Room / This Section that s is the Section that Mr Adair must make his Estimate from. all the Difference is / that there is to be two Bookcases on the Chimney Side the same as in the other Section / with a Pannell over them like that in this Ends over Bookcases / Books & Surbase to be Continued (verso) 1

Signed and dated

c1763
datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (757 x 621)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias or George Richardson, with pencil-drawn annotations in the hand of Robert Adam, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&CBLAUW and XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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