[4] Finished drawing for a wall for the great dining room, presumed to have been executed, August 1780

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
      - Designs for the interior decoration, including the great dining room, music room, eating room, drawing rooms and boudoir (59)
        Preliminary design, finished drawing and record drawings for ceiling and walls for the great dining room, ceiling as executed, and walls presumed to have been executed, August 1780 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/138

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a wall for the great dining room, presumed to have been executed, August 1780

Aspect

Elevation of a wall, with a central chimneypiece, with a Bacchic mask in the tablet, a frieze containing cornucopia, and drops in the stiles, flanked on either side by a door with a frame ornamented with sphinxes. The doors are screened by fluted and barbed Corinthian columns, and the wall is ornamented with figurative panels, a dado of enclosed rosettes, medallions, urns, drops, festoons, and a frieze of sphinxes and urns

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Great Dining room at Cumberland House

Signed and dated

August 1780
August 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including yellow ochre and black on laid paper (399 x 631)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Stillman, 1966, p. 78.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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