[48] Record drawings for friezes for the eating room, ante room, first drawing room and second drawing room, ND, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/37

Purpose

[48] Record drawings for friezes for the eating room, ante room, first drawing room and second drawing room, ND, as executed

Aspect

Eating room- Elevation of a frieze ornamented with oil burners and masks set within a continuous band of wreaths Ante room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with arabesques supporting anthemia set within semi-circular-headed bands of calyx, and these are flanked by further anthemia First drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with arabesques supporting calyx, tubular flowers, and urns ornamented with ram masks and bearing anthemia, and this is flanked by calyx supporting anthemia, tubular flowers and cascading flora Second drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with lion masks set within beaded roundels, and which bear festoons of calyx suspending cameos depicting urns. The urns are set within semi-circular bands of beading, and all this is flanked by arabesques supporting tubular flowers and bell flowers

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Eating room (underwritten in pencil) / Anti room / Anti room one pair (pencil) / 1st Drawing room / first Drawing room (pencil) / 2.d Drawing room / Second Drawing room (pencil) / 37

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 469)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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