[33] Finished drawing for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - 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 24/262

Purpose

[33] Finished drawing for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular door panel, ornamented with a central elliptical portrait medallion, flanked by bands of Vitruvian scroll, supporting winged sphinxes, surmounted by calyx, wreaths, anthemia, arabesques, tubular flowers, and a gadrooned urn ornamented with ram masks, and the central medallion has an apron of festoons, urns, anthemia, a tablet containing rosettes and swags, tubular flowers, arabesques and rosettes

Scale

to a scale, possibly full sized

Inscribed

Earl of Derby

Signed and dated

1774
Datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, terre verte and Naples yellow on laid paper (289 x 521)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999

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