[30] Record drawings for friezes for the eating room, music room, library screen and octagonal dressing room, ND, as executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/2

Purpose

[30] Record drawings for friezes for the eating room, music room, library screen and octagonal dressing room, ND, as executed

Aspect

Music room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with fluting segmented by medallions set within wreaths of husks, and these are surrounded by acorns Library- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with a horizontal band of calyx, arabesques and anthemia set within a continuous band of wreaths Library screen- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with rosettes set within a beaded roundel, and ox masks linked with festoons of husks Octagonal dressing room- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Eating Room / Music Room / Library / Over Screen in Library / Octagon Dressing Room / 2. / no[_ _ _ _] (modern curatorial hand, Arthur Bolton, pencil)

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (294 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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