[65] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed

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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Preliminary designs for ornamental panels, panels for window shutters and a door, c1775, possibly executed (14)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/15

Purpose

[65] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a decorative panel with arabesques surmounted by an urn ornamented with gadrooning, a recumbent lion and masks. Above this further arabesques support a tablet with a central medallion. This is surmounted by winged griffin, arabesques and a tubular flower which supports a putto with pendent rosettes and with swags behind

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (324 x 626)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Preliminary design showing a tubular flower surmounted by a sphinx (pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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