[2] Finished drawing for the interior of a garden temple, 1767, executed with alterations

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  - Halsewell Park, Bridgwater, Somerset: executed design for the interior decoration of the Temple of Harmony for Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, 5th Baronet, 1767 (3)
    - Preliminary design, finished drawing and record drawing for the interior of a garden temple, 1767, executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/144

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for the interior of a garden temple, 1767, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a Dioceltian arched wall, with a female sculpture, supported by a pedestal ornamented with a panel of rinceaux, flanked by pulvinated and fluted lotus capital columns, and supporting a lintel ornamented with rosettes and festoons, and flanked by rectangular grisaille wall panels, and with a frieze containing drops of calyx between a serpentine ribbon, and above the frieze is a square panel of rinceaux flanking an urn, and this is flanked by triangular panels of rinceaux including half putti

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of one End of the Temple for Sir Charles Tynte Baronet

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (372 x 524)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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