[1] Design for an organ case, c1763, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
    - Designs for an organ case, c1763, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/5

Purpose

[1] Design for an organ case, c1763, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an organ case, with a base ornamented with rosettes enclosed within a band of rope moulding, and with festoons. Above this there is a panel ornamented with rosettes enclosed within overlapping circles and lozenges, and compartments ornamented with rosettes surrounded by calyx. The compartments are flanked by ram masks suspending festoons and cameos, and by ribbons suspending musical instruments. The central compartment is ornamented with a figurative roundel surrounded by rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and with a band of anthemia below. The pilaster stiles are ornamented with spears surmounted by masks, continuous bands of olive branch wreaths, and by acanthus leaf, anthemia and drop calyx. The organ case has a frieze of fluting and is surmounted by urns

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Organ Case for The Earl of Bute / 5

Signed and dated

c1763
c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (228 x 329)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, PP. 69-70; Volume II, Index, p. 21
Malloch, 1983, pp. 172-183
Russell, 1992, pp. 44-47
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 409, 411, pl. 566; Volume II, p. 272
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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