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[14] Design for a dining room, 1778, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 41/52
Purpose
[14] Design for a dining room, 1778, possibly executed
Aspect
Plan and laid-out wall elevations of a dining room, with a canted bay with semi-circular headed windows at one end. Opposite this, there is a chimneypiece, with Doric pilaster styles, ornamented with volutes terminating in acanthus leaves. The frieze is ornamented with rosettes and a central tablet. This is flanked by preliminary frames and doorways with cornices with capitals containing urns, and a frieze of anthemia. The door frame, chair and skirting rails are ornamented with bands of moulding. The room has a frieze of figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing masks, with further moulded bands above. One short end contains a further doorway, flanked by frames, with further frames opposite
Scale
bar scale of 6 1/2 inches to 20 feet
Inscribed
Eating Room (in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) / Dining Room Mistley Hall (pencil)
Signed and dated
- Feb 1778
Adelphi / 2.d Febry 1778.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (697 x 652)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
number fifteen (brown ink) / Mistley Hall- Richd Rigby Esqre Design of [__] House / 3 / Mr Rigby (pencil)
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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