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[120] Preliminary design for a cornice for the music room, c1761-62
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/3/39
Purpose
[120] Preliminary design for a cornice for the music room, c1761-62
Aspect
Two rough elevations showing the same cornice design, ornamented with bands of acanthus leaves, dentils, laurel leaf tips, enclosed rosettes, fluting, and with a volute modillion
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Ionick Cornish for Sr Nat Curzon / Music Room (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1761-1762
datable to c1761-62
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen on laid paper (184 x 89)
Hand
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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