[3] Design for the interior layout of the principal storey of the house, c1766-67, executed with alterations

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  - 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 41/74

Purpose

[3] Design for the interior layout of the principal storey of the house, c1766-67, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan of the principal (ground) storey of a U-shaped house, with a double-pile, five-bay principal block, with a central hall accessed by a central porticoed entrance, with an Imperial staircase to one side, and the principal block is flanked by projecting eleven- and twelve-bay wings, with three-bay canted ends on the principal front. The left-hand wing contains a sculpture gallery as Adam volume 41/76, and an apsidal drawing room beyond, and the right-hand wing contains the kitchen and domestic rooms, and with pencil-drawn annotations showing curved external stairs on the principal front, and a rough elevation for a porch and balustrading as seen in Adam volume 41/73

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Newby (in pencil) / 1st design (in pencil) / Plan of the Alterations of a House of William Weddell Esqr / [ _ _ _ _ _ ] South (in pencil) / W (in pencil) / Dining Room / Room for Antiquitys / Anti Room / Drawing Room / Hall / Powdering Room / Servants room / Mr Weddells Dressing Room / Ladys Bed Room / Ladys Dressing Room / Water Closet / Powdering Room / Kitchen Continued (underwritten in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1766-67
datable to 1766-67

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (366 x 496)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 2001, pp. 356, 358
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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