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  • image SM Adam volume 49/18

Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/18

Purpose

[53] Finished drawing for the walls for the third drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted

Aspect

Section showing the chimney wall, with a central chimneypiece ornamented with figurative panels, and surmounted by candelabra, and an overmantel mirror frame. The walls are ornamented with Corinthian pilasters either side of a door, grotesque panels, figurative panels, and a frieze of arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing Room for the Duke of Cumberland

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1785
    date range: 1780-85

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including verdigris and Indian yellow within a single ruled border on laid paper (462 x 607)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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