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  • image SM Adam volume 49/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/19

Purpose

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

Aspect

Section showing a five-bay window wall, with three windows, and two doors flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The windows have gilt curtain cornices ornamented with medallions and female figures. Between the windows are two pier tables with fluted top rails, surmounted by candelabra, and pier glass frames, ornamented with festoons, lions, unicorns, half-figures, and an oval medallion. The wall is ornamented with figurative panels, and a frieze of arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing Room for Cumberland House

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1785
    date range: 1780-85

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (463 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

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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

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