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[4] Finished drawing for the building and interior decoration, c1772
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 30/60
Purpose
[4] Finished drawing for the building and interior decoration, c1772
Aspect
Longitudinal section through a rectangular building as Adam volume 30/62, showing the screened apsidal end on the left-hand side, and three screened recessed areas, each containing three windows, and surmounted by a large fanlight forming arched dormers in the barrel-vaulted ceiling, and with a door at each end of the recessed, and urn-filled niches in the two piers to either side of the central recess, and the decorative scheme includes a mirror in the form of a repeating Venetian window in the apse, which is articulated by terms, figurative medallions and tablets over the doors and niches, vertical compartments of arabesques, a frieze of alternating enclosed cameos and peltoid shields, columns screening the recesses with lotus capitals, and the ceiling is ornamented with fans, griffons, bands of anthemia, bands of arabesques, and bands of rosettes enclosed within connected Greek crosses
Scale
bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Inside of Loyds Coffee House (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1772
datable to c1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including verdigris and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper (938 x 640)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Watermark
D&CBLAUW IV and XD&CB within a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
The Lloyds log, 1955, p. 10
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
The Lloyds log, 1955, p. 10
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk