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[8] Design for the interior of an unknown room, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 29/98
Purpose
[8] Design for the interior of an unknown room, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular room, with semi-circular apses on three sides. Two of these apses are on the short sides, and are screened by columns, and the third is at the centre of one of the long sides, opposite a chimneypiece
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
For Lord Cathcart / No Scale to the Original Plan / The whole hight from the floor to the Bottom of Cornice 9 ft 9 In / D[ _ _ _ _ _ ] for a Frize / 0.7 / hight of the Columns 9.2 / The Column is 11 1/2 In: Diamr at the Base & about 9 1.2 Diamr high / the Columns to Diminsh 1/7 and the Pilasterd 1/14 (verso) 7
Signed and dated
- 09/09/1775
Adelphi Sepr 9t. 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (547 x 383)
Hand
Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
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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