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Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/87

Purpose

[49] Preliminary design for the walls for the second drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the wall opposite the chimney, with two doors flanked by three large mirror frames. There is a sofa under the central and left-hand mirror frames, and the walls are ornamented with Corinthian pilasters, naval overdoor panels, and a frieze of festoons and arabesques

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Side opposite the Chimney of Second Drawing room at Cumberland House / W

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1785
    date range: 1780-1785

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (399 x 597)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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