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  • image SM Adam volume 52/74

Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/74

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a portrait cameo draped by festoons and with an apron of arabesques. Above this further arabesques support an urn ornamented with rosettes 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 within a single ruled border (231 x 234)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

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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