[2] Finished drawing for the sculpture gallery, c1766-67, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Newby Hall, Ripon, North Yorkshire: designs for the house and interior for William Weddell, 1766-84 (52)
    - Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for the interior layout of the house, c1766-67, executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/76

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the sculpture gallery, c1766-67, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a projecting wing which is composed of three spaces, with a central circular room with four niches containing pedestals, and on one side of the room is a door behind a three-bay portico, and on the opposite wall there is a chimneypiece, and this room is flanked by rectangular rooms with two windows on one side, and two blind windows opposite, one of which has an apsidal end containing three blind windows, and each contains niches and pedestals

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Room for Antiques at Newby / the Seat of William Weddell Esqr (all in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given (verso) 4

Signed and dated

1766-67
datable to 1766-67

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (637 x 501)

Hand

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 2001, p. 356
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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