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[1] Record drawing showing laid out wall elevations for the front drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 50/92
Purpose
[1] Record drawing showing laid out wall elevations for the front drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with a two-bay window wall, with an oval pier glass, and a single door in the wall opposite, and with a chimneypiece on one side wall, and two doors in the wall opposite, and the whole room has a frieze of anthemia
Scale
pricked bar scale of 2 4/5 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Section of the Room to Mary Street for The Rt Honble Hercules Rowley Esqr. (on a small separate sheet affixed to the recto)
Signed and dated
- 1765
datable to 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (545 x 508)
Hand
Adam office hand
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche and [cropped]ILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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