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[69] Design for a bookcase for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1776, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/222
Purpose
[69] Design for a bookcase for Lady Williams-Wynn’s dressing room, 1776, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a bookcase set within a niche, with socle feet and tapering fluted legs, which terminate in capitals containing rosettes. Above this there is a frieze ornamented with rosettes and with wreaths containing rosettes which form a lock and handles. The wreaths are linked with festoons. Above the frieze there is a band of laurel leaf tips. Pilasters ornamented with calyx and anthemia flank the bookcase doors, which contain decorative panels. The panels are ornamented with arabesques and calyx supporting tablets containing swags and rosettes, and the tablets are surmounted by urns flanked by winged griffins. The panels have central cameos set within wreaths with aprons of swags, rosettes and calyx. Above this there are arabesques and tubular flowers which support urns bearing anthemia, and these are flanked by festoons of husks. The bookcase has a frieze of laurel leaf tips, with a central tablet depicting a chariot drawn by putti, and the case is surmounted by red-figure urns
Scale
bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Bookcase for Lady Wynn’s Dressing room- / This is the side x (pencil) / 11 / 222 (pencil)
Signed and dated
- February 1776
Adelphi / 9.t Febry 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow, pink, verdigris and terre verte on laid paper (241 x 406)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
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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