[18] Design for a dressing room for the adjoining bath, 1778, possibly executed

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  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/22

Purpose

[18] Design for a dressing room for the adjoining bath, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan and laid-out wall-elevations of a dressing room, with one wall forming a bow, with a central doorway flanked by full-height windows. Beyond this there are Doric columns and niches containing urns, with medallions set above. The opposite wall-elevation shows a central chimneypiece surmounted by an overmantel mirror frame. The frame has stiles ornamented with drop calyx, a frieze of swags, and is surmounted by an urn flanked by winged sphinxes. The chimneypiece is flanked by further niches containing urns, with medallions set above. Beyond this there are Doric columns and doorways. The end-wall elevations contain pedestals bearing statuary, set behind an Ionic screen, with a lunette above

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 2 feet

Inscribed

Design for finishing the four sides of the Dressing room adjoining the Bath at Wormleybury. (and in the hand of William Adam) for Sir Abraham Hume / Plan of the room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Nov 1778
Adelphi / 13. Nov. 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (588 x 482)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

D & C BLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 226
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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