[9] Finished drawing for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780

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    - 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 designs, a finished drawing, and working drawings for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/148

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with paired pilasters in the stiles, ornamented with drops of bell flowers, and ox skulls, and between the pilasters are drops of peltoid shields, calyx, bows, beading, urns, cameos, and lions, and with a frieze of figure-of-eight ribbons enclosing rosettes, and fluting enclosing urns and anthemia, and with a figurative tablet, and oval medallions in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cumberland House. Pall Mall / Great Dining Room / 7.5 details Plates 252-253 (all in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton) / Mr Hoffman (in pencil in the hand of Robert Adam)

Signed and dated

August 1780
August 21st 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including yellow ochre and black on laid paper (291 x 404)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Notes

Mr Hoffman has not yet been identified.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, pp. 78, 95
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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