[10] Design for a door frame, for the japanned room, c1762-63, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace), The Mall, London: designs for the interior, an illumination, rebuilding the palace, and a pianoforte, for King George III and Queen Charlotte, 1761-1763, and 1780 (25)
      - Designs for door frames, for the staircase, the dressing room, and the japanned room, c1762-63, possibly executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/8

Purpose

[10] Design for a door frame, for the japanned room, c1762-63, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a door with composite pilaster piers ornamented with wreaths, calyx, a small cornucopia, and anthemia supporting a frieze of arabesques, anthemia and calyx, and with an overdoor panel of crowns, swords, festoons and bows

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Door for the Japanned Room at the Q House / NB The pilaster propos'd to project much as will receive the and more feint and illegible pencil annotations [all in pencil] Drawings of Doors / for the Queens House in a later hand [written across both Adam volumes 27/76 and 49/8 after they were pasted together]

Signed and dated

1762-1763
date range: 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (386 x 502)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Colvin, 1976, p. 137
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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