[4] Design for a wall panel in the upper portion of an arched recess, 1767

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    - Fife House, Whitehall, London: designs for interior decoration, for James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife, 1766-67 (4)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/198

Purpose

[4] Design for a wall panel in the upper portion of an arched recess, 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a segmental compartment, with a segmental panel at the base containing an urn flanked by winged griffons with rinceau tails, enclosed within a bands of ornament, containing rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight foliage, and quadrilateral compartments divided by bands of cable moulding, and containing enclosed rosettes, encircled by circular frames of Vitruvian scroll, and with calyx and anthemia in each corner

Scale

bar scale of 7/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the End of the Room over the Cornice opposite to the Bow in the Earl of Fifes Great Room at Whitehall / Cornice / Tapestry

Signed and dated

1767
Robt Adam Architect 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (614 x 246)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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