[4] Record drawing of designs for friezes for a house, c.1777, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Langside or Aikenhead House, Glasgow: designs for a house and stable offices for Thomas Brown, 1777, as executed (10)
    - Record drawings for the interior decoration of a house including chimneypieces and friezes, 1777, executed status unknown, (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/48

Purpose

[4] Record drawing of designs for friezes for a house, c.1777, executed status unknown

Aspect

Three frieze designs comprising alternating anthemion and calyx pairs on scrolls, enclosed anthemion on calyx drops flanked by calyx pairs, and urns on pedestals with festoons

Scale

to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Thomas Brown Esq^r/ Oval room / South room / Eating room.

Signed and dated

c.1777
datable to c.1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper paper (294x470)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

I VILLEDARY

Notes

These three frieze designs match the friezes in the designs for the chimneypieces, SM Adam volumes 23/85-87.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 1
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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