SM Adam volume 50/34

[26] Finished drawing for the north wall of the music room, 1775, as executed

Elevation of the music room, with a central chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with ram masks and swags suspending musical instruments. The capitals contain roundels enclosing instruments and there is a frieze of strigils and further roundels. The mantel is surmounted by a clock and an overmantel mirror frame with stiles ornamented with fans surmounted by draped figures, husks, wreaths surmounted by anthemia, ram masks and swags. The capitals contain cameos flanked by sphinxes, and the frame is surmounted by a central cameo and urn flanked by winged griffins. All this is set within a relieving arch flanked by doors set within niches with semi-domed ceilings. The overdoors are ornamented with lyres, half-putti and arabesques. Above this there is a frieze of festoons and musical instruments and a further frieze of enclosed anthemia. The semi-domed ceiling is ornamented with a central patera enclosed within a foil and beyond this there are bands of swags, calyx and arabesques, and rosettes alternating with calyx. The apses are flanked by pilasters in a tripartite arrangement, with mirrored strips flanked by Corinthian pilasters supported by a base ornamented with medallions, festoons and ox skulls. The mirrored strips are ornamented with rosettes, festoons and anthemia, with candle branches set in front and the pilasters are surmounted by urns in relief