[4] Finished drawing for an ornamental screen between the house and offices, c1772, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Finished drawings for an ornamental screen between the house and offices, c1772, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 40/72

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for an ornamental screen between the house and offices, c1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a screen with columnar pedestals ornamented with rosettes, festoons, and Vitruvian scroll and surmounted by draped figures, all set within reliving arches. The heads of the arches are ornamented with friezes of fluting and fans embellished with calyx, anthemia, and arabesques. The arches are flanked by paired Ionic columns, with tapering terms supporting urns set in between, and friezes of rosette roundels. The spandrels are ornamented with calyx and scrolled hearts supporting urns, and the urns are linked with festoons. The screen terminates in piers with columnar pedestals supporting draped figures bearing urns, all set within niches. The piers are ornamented with a band of fluting and rosette roundels, with a figurative medallion draped in festoons above. The piers are surmounted by urns draped in festoons, and the screen has a frieze of fluting and lion masks

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

First Design / of an Ornamental Wall on the back wall of the Yard between the House & offices / (and in the hand of William Adam) of Sir Watkin Williams Wynns House / St James’s Square- and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c1772
c1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (928 x 361)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis set within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 275, 280
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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