[6] Record drawing for a frieze for the gallery, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Longleat House, Wiltshire: unexecuted designs for a new wing and an interior decorative scheme for the gallery for Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth (later 1st Marquess of Bath), 1775 (6)
    - Record drawing for a frieze for the gallery, ND, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/30 (part)

Purpose

[6] Record drawing for a frieze for the gallery, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the gallery, composed of urns supported by tubular flowers, and containing anthemia, alternating with palm fronds and tubular flowers, and connected by arabesques of ribbons enclosing rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Lord Weymouth / Gallery at Longleat

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (292 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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