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[47] Preliminary design for the Etruscan room / third drawing room, c1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/68
Purpose
[47] Preliminary design for the Etruscan room / third drawing room, c1775, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a panel with Etruscan style ornamentation, with a band of interlacing circles ornamented with medallions, fans and anthemia and this is surmounted by a geometric band. Above this there are ornamental panels set within niches with a central figurative tablet surmounted by arabesques, a cameo and further cameos flanked by half-figures bearing swags and drop calyx, with an urn above. Below the central tablet there is a tubular flower and half-putto bearing a wreath enclosing a medallion and surmounted by an urn and arabesques. The urn has festoons of beading which suspend medallions and cameos. Above all this the semi-circular head of the niche is ornamented with a tablet containing a roundel and festoons which is surmounted by an anthemion and flanked by winged sphinxes. Between the niches there are further winged sphinxes surmounted by rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, arabesques, tubular flowers, drop calyx and a medallion all surmounted by an urn bearing an anthemion
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- c1775
c1775
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (190 x 310)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Watermark
Crowned heraldic badge
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
Whinney, 1969, p. 68
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 27, 197-198, 290
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
Whinney, 1969, p. 68
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 27, 197-198, 290
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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