[31] Design for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Designs and finished drawings for the great drawing room door panels, August 1774, Adam volumes 46/61, 24/261, 24/262, 24/264 executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/61

Purpose

[31] Design for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a square door panel, containing a circular medallion, hung from a mask, flanked by festoons which support musical trophies, and the medallion is supported by arabesques enclosing rosettes

Scale

to a scale, possibly full size

Inscribed

Top pannell for Doors at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / a fair Copy of this sent to Mr. Clay / at Birmingham / A green ground / figure colour / 10/4 square (in pencil) and some rough calculations in pencil on the right-hand side

Signed and dated

10/05/1774
Adelphi May 10t. 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (379 x 391)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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