[20] Record drawings for friezes for the hall, staircase, and north room, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Record drawings for friezes for the hall, staircase and north room, ND, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/36 (part)

Purpose

[20] Record drawings for friezes for the hall, staircase, and north room, ND, as executed

Aspect

Hall- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with an urn and ox skulls bearing festoons, and these are separated by rosette roundels set within a band of beading Staircase- Elevation of a frieze of rosettes set within semi-circular bands of calyx, with flora set in between North room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with urns embellished with gadrooning, rosettes and festoons. And this is flanked by lekythoi ornamented with rosettes and festoons

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Duke of Roxburghe / Roxburgh House (pencil) / Hall / Staircase (underwritten in pencil) / North room (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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