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  • image SM Adam volume 14/140

Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/140

Purpose

[3] Design for a wall for the great dining room, presumed to have been executed, August 1780

Aspect

Elevation of a wall, with one door with a frame ornamented with sphinxes. The wall is ornamented with a figurative panel, medallions, urns, drops, festoons, and a frieze of sphinxes and urns

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

feint pencil inscriptions, one of which reads Orange

Signed and dated

  • August 1780
    August 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, and coloured washes including olive green and Naples yellow on laid paper (410 x 310)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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