[19] Record drawing for friezes for the front and back drawing rooms, and the bedchamber, ND

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
      - Record drawing for friezes for the front and back drawing rooms, and the bedchamber, ND (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/22 (part)

Purpose

[19] Record drawing for friezes for the front and back drawing rooms, and the bedchamber, ND

Aspect

Elevation of friezes. The frieze for the front drawing room is composed of an urn, arabesques, festoons, and half putti. The frieze for the back drawing room is composed of arabesques, rosettes, calyx, and anthemia. The frieze for the bedchamber is composed of putti holding baskets of flowers, putti riding lions, calyx, tubular flowers, and festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Robert Child Esqr / First Drawing room in town / Second Drawing room / Bed Chamber / Robt Child (in pencil)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (293 x 469)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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