[44] Finished drawing for the walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted

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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)
        Unfinished preliminary designs and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/21

Purpose

[44] Finished drawing for the walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the two side walls, including a screen of two Corinthian columns. The first wall has a chimneypiece ornamented with a half-lion and half-unicorn in the frieze, and surmounted by an overmantel mirror frame ornamented with candle branches, rosettes, urns, anthemia, and surmounted by a lion, a unicorn, and Britannia. There is a window wall to the left, and beyond the screen on the right is a door, with overdoor panels on a nautical theme. The second wall, opposite, shows a corresponding door and nautical overdoor panel, and a further central door opposite the chimneypiece, surmounted by a figurative panel and a pediment

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing Room in Cumberland House

Signed and dated

1780-1785
date range: 1780-1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (455 x 609)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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