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[10] Design for the library, 1767, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/113
Purpose
[10] Design for the library, 1767, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Sections of the apsidal (west and east) ends of a rectangular room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, screened by fluted Corinthian columns, one lined with bookcases, and the other with a central door flanked by bookcases. Each is ornamented with rectangular figurative panels - a lunette-shaped figurative panel over the door - a frieze of lions and deer skulls, and a ceiling ornamented with a band of anthemia and tubular flowers, arabesques and medallions
Scale
bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Section Unknown (in pencil) / 1st Portion (in pencil) / KENWOOD (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (600 x 431)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Watermark
D&BCLVUW
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 34
Bryant, 1990, p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 71
Beard, 1978, p. 34
Bryant, 1990, p. 19
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
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