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[44] Record drawings for friezes for the saloon, drawing room, oval room and bow window room, ND, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 53/47
Purpose
[44] Record drawings for friezes for the saloon, drawing room, oval room and bow window room, ND, possibly executed
Aspect
Saloon – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with calyx supporting urns embellished with gadrooning, guilloche and ram masks supporting festoons of husks. The urns alternate with rosettes and arabesques supporting anthemia and all this is linked by further festoons of husks
Saloon- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with rosette roundels and festoons of husks
Drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with calyx supporting an urn embellished with gadrooning, busts of sphinxes and acanthus leaves. The urns are flanked by pedestals ornamented with masks bearing drop calyx and the pedestals support calyx, arabesques and rosettes. All this is linked with festoons
Oval room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with rosettes flanked by calyx
Bow window room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with festoons of calyx and peltoid shields containing calyx
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Saloon (underwritten in pencil) / Saloon (underwritten in pencil) / Drawing room (underwritten in pencil) / faint pencil inscription / Oval Room / Oval Room and Drawing Room (pencil) / Bow window room (underwritten in pencil) / 47.
Signed and dated
- ND
ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (293 x 472)
Hand
Possibly
James Adam
James Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
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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