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  • image SM Adam volume 53/3

Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/3

Purpose

[73] Record drawings for friezes for the ante room, first drawing room, second drawing room, lady’s dressing room and bedchamber, ND, possibly executed

Aspect

First floor ante room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with urns and rosettes set within wreaths of husks, linked with festoons of husks First drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with arabesques supporting anthemia and calyx Second drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with half-putti, arabesques and rosettes Lady’s dressing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with rosette roundels and ribbons suspending festoons Bed chamber- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with arabesques which support anthemia and poppies

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Anti Room one pair / First Drawing room / Second Drawing room / Lady’s Dressing room / Bed Chamber

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (294 x 471)

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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