[1] Design for walls of the great room, c1768-87, thought to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Shrewsbury Castle, Shropshire: designs for interior decoration for Sir William Pulteney, thought to have been executed, c1768-87 (3)
    - Designs for walls of the great room, c1768-87, thought to have been executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/83

Purpose

[1] Design for walls of the great room, c1768-87, thought to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a two-bay window wall, with pointed arched windows, slightly recessed, and with a band of lozenges beneath, and the walls are ornamented with quatrefoil-shaped fluting, with lozenges enclosing coats of arms beneath the dado, and with rectangular compartments of trophies, and a central pointed arched figurative panel in the central pier, and with a frieze of enclosed masks, and trefoils enclosed within triangles

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Side opposite the Chimney in the large Rom Shrewsbury Castle for Sir William Pulteney (for Sir William Pulteney in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 1 / Shrewsbury Castle / Sections for finishings &c.

Signed and dated

1768-87
date range: 1768-87

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (545 x 328)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 181
Williams, 2016, p. 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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