[80] Preliminary design for door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, c1775-77, executed with minor alterations

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- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary designs for door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, c1775-77, executed with minor alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/110

Purpose

[80] Preliminary design for door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, c1775-77, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of six variant door panels, three for Robert Child, and three for Lord Stanley. Child's designs are composed of one square panel containing an urn enclosed within a wreath, and two rectangular panels, one containing anthemia, an urn, drops, an oval medallion, a rectangular figurative panel, and half horses, and the other rectangular panel contains a rosette enclosed within a wreath, festoons, a tubular flower, ram masks, a rectangular figurative panel, an urn, and a pedestal ornamented with ram masks

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mr Childs Door pannels / Lord Stanleys Pannels

Signed and dated

c1775-1777
datable to c1775-77

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (151 x 317)

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

An arched recess

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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