[2] Record drawing for a frieze, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Piccadilly, number 15 (later number 138-139), London: unexecuted designs for a drawing room ceiling and a frieze for the 2rd Earl of March and Ruglen, 1774 (2)
      - Record drawing for a frieze, ND, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/28 (part)

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for a frieze, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the drawing room, composed of urns, supported by tubular flowers and arabesques, enclosed within segmental frames ornamented with anthemia, and connected by festoons hung from bows, and from these bows are also hung small drops of calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl of March / Drawing room

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (292 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 45
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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