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- Country houses
  - Syon House, Brentford, Greater London: designs for the interior and the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1761-69 (69)

Variant design and finished drawing for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, Adam volume 18/60 as executed (2)

The ante room pavement is executed in scagliola, to the design shown in Adam volume 18/60. It is one of many examples in Adam's work where the floor (pavement or carpet) correlated with his ceiling design. The colours used in this pavement are very rich, and darker than is typical of Adam.

There is an engraving of this pavement in volume II of The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam.

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Syon House, Brentford, Greater London: designs for the interior and the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1761-69 (69)

[14] Design for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, unexecuted

datable to c1761-62

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 49/54

Drawing

Syon House, Brentford, Greater London: designs for the interior and the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1761-69 (69)

[15] Finished drawing for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, as executed

datable to c1761-62

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

SM Adam volume 18/60

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