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[17] Preliminary design for door panels, possibly for the drawing room, 1775, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/62
Purpose
[17] Preliminary design for door panels, possibly for the drawing room, 1775, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a tripartite door panel. The lowest panel is ornamented with a drop composed of winged griffons, tripods, medallions and festoons. The middle panel is ornamented with a drop composed of calyx, arabesques, rosettes, anthemia, winged sphinxes, ram masks, enclosed masks and wreaths. The top panel contains a central enclosed urn within a wreath, and flanked by lanterns (verso) rough pencil-drawn preliminary design for a jug
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Three pannels for th D. of Northumberland Doors, Northd House
Signed and dated
- 22/02/1775
Adelphi 22d Febry 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (184 x 320)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 2001, p. 345
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 345
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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