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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/12

Purpose

[53] Preliminary design for an ornamental door panel for the Etruscan room, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an ornamental panel with a pedestal ornamented with a rosette and bands of fluting. This supports an urn surmounted by arabesques and a tablet containing a figurative scene. Above this there is a wreath, portrait cameo, festoons, arabesques and a further urn ornamented with gadrooning and ram masks and surmounted by an anthemion

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

At Lady Houmes

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (190 x 553)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Notes

This design is included within an elevation of the Ertruscan room, SM Adam volume 14/132.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
Whinney, 1969, pp. 54, 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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