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[50] Design for the gallery, c1761-63, executed with alterations
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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.
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk