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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Preliminary designs for ornamental door panels for the Etruscan room, c1775, possibly executed (3)

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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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