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[54] Preliminary design for an ornamental door panel for the Etruscan room, c1775, possibly executed
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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
Robert Adam
Literature
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
Whinney, 1969, pp. 54, 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Whinney, 1969, pp. 54, 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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