[14] Finished drawing for the back parlour, c1775, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Finished drawing for the back parlour, c1775, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/119

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for the back parlour, c1775, as executed

Aspect

Plan and laid-out-wall-elevations of a room with an apsidal end containing a central doorway surmounted by a fan overdoor. This is flanked by Corinthian pilasters ornamented with urns, arabesques and anthemia, and niches with semi-domed ceilings from which oil lamps are suspended. Above there is a frieze of rosettes and swags and a further frieze ornamented with a band of guilloche formed from wreaths. The opposite wall contains a central tripartite window with a cornice of lambrequins. The window is flanked by Corinthian pilasters and ornamental panels containing candle branches with an apron of peltoid shields. Above there are medallions, urns, calyx and anthemia. One long wall contains a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame as Adam volume 23/64. Beyond this there are further Corinthian pilasters and panels ornamented with painted scenes. The opposite wall contains two further doorways with cornices ornamented with rosettes and overdoors depicting figurative scenes. There are further Corinthian pilasters with candle branches, ornamental panels and a panel with a painted scene

Scale

bar scale of 6 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Lady Homes Back parlor

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, Indian yellow and yellow ochre on laid paper (441 x 591)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

(Modern curatorial hand, pencil) vol XIV 119 / 60

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 13-14, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 36, 61
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 288-89, pl. XXVIII
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

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