[50] Design for the gallery, c1761-63, executed with alterations

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    - Designs for the gallery, c1761-63, Adam volmes 39/1-2 executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/2

Purpose

[50] Design for the gallery, c1761-63, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevations of the chimney and window walls of a gallery. The window wall is eleven bays in length, with bookcases flanked by Corinthian pilasters on each pier, and the wall is ornamented with rectangular panels and a frieze of festoons, and there are pencil-drawn cabinets against some of the piers. The chimney wall has three pedimented doors and two chimneypieces with fluted pilaster stiles and fluted friezes, with tripartite bookcases articulated by Corinthian pilasters in between, and the wall is ornamented with tripod and urn-filled rectangular and arched recesses, festoons, rectangular and lunette figurative panels, medallions, and a frieze of fret

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design for Sion Gallery Duke of Northumberland (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) Sion Gallery / 3 (in pencil) / another design (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1761-63
datable to c1761-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including yellow ochre on laid paper (1508 x 484)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 6
Rowan, 1988, p. 85
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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