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