[17] Design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
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      - Preliminary design and design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/105

Purpose

[17] Design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a curtain cornice, with bands of fluting, and egg and dart, and apron of anthemia enclosed within lambrequins, and tassels, and surmounted by acanthus leaves, pinecones, fluting, rosettes, and a central anthemion

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the Eating room at Osterly

Signed and dated

November 1768
Nover 4th / 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (533 x 155)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Stillman, 1966, pp. 69, 75
Rowan, 1988, p. 72
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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