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  • image SM Adam volume 17/114

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/114

Purpose

[33] Design for a curtain cornice for the first library, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a curtain cornice surmounted by Strawberry leaves, and with an apron ornamented with part-paterae set within fans, with enclosed anthemia set in between

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the first Library room at Roxburghe House / 114 (pencil) / 2 Windows Architrave(?) & 2 over(?) (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1779
    c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (360 x 240)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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