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  • image SM Adam volume 54/3/55

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/3/55

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for the upper register windows in the hall, c1761, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Rough elevation for a rectangular window, with an architrave composed of a base rail of fluting and laurel leaves, flanked by scrolls supporting fluted tapering pilasters, ornamented with enclosed rosettes and lion masks, and with strigils in the lintel

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

upper Window for Ld / Northumberlands Hall

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    datable to c1761

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (89 x 157)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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