[9] Record drawing for friezes for the principal front, the ante room, the drawing room, and a dressing room

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    - Saville Row, number 10, London: designs for interior decoration for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1778 (9)
      - Record drawing for friezes for the principal front, the ante room, the drawing room, and a dressing room (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/40 (part)

Purpose

[9] Record drawing for friezes for the principal front, the ante room, the drawing room, and a dressing room

Aspect

Elevation of friezes. The frieze for the principal front is composed of large anthemia supported by calyx, and small anthemia supported by calyx, tubular flowers, further anthemia, and small tripod pedestals, and the small anthemia are connected by swags of ribbon. The frieze for the ante room is composed of anthemia supported by tubular flowers and calys, connected by festoons of beading, and from the beading are bows supporting festoons of bell flowers, and enclosed rosettes. The frieze for the drawing room is composed of a large peltoid shield, ornamented with a fan, supported by calyx, underneath a segmental frame of beading, supported by calyx and tubular flowers, and this is flanked by anthemia and double calyx, and connected by rinceau. The frieze for the dressing room is composed of anthemia supported by calyx, alternating with arrangements of tubular flowers supported by double calyx, and connected by rinceau

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sr John Griffin [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] (in feint pencil) / (and in pen and underwritten in pencil) Burlington Street / Frontispiece / Anti room / Drawing room / Dressing room

Signed and dated

N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper of folio page (290 x 472)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

VDL V and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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