[2] Finished drawing for the library, 1764, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
    - House and interior
      - Finished drawings for the library, 1764, unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 43/4

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the library, 1764, unexecuted

Aspect

Section showing the apsidal (west) end of a room screened by fluted Spalatro columns and pilasters, with a medallion and figurative panels above the screen, and three niches containing a door, bookcases and busts within the apse, and with a caryatid chimneypiece on the right-hand wall, and arched windows on each side ornamented with octagonal coffering in the soffits

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of one End of the Library for Kenwood / the Seat of Lord Mansfield

Signed and dated

1764
James Adam Archt 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink and Naples yellow washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (374 x 507)

Hand

James Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 119
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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