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[16] Preliminary design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/131
Purpose
[16] Preliminary design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations
Aspect
Rough elevation of a detail of a curtain cornice, with an apron of lambrequins ornamented with anthemia, and behind these a swag of curtain, and surmounted by anthemia, crockets, volutes, acanthus leaves, and feathers
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Curtain Cornice / (and in the hand of Arthur Bolton) Probably Osterley see vol17 (104) / Nov 4. 1768
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (301 x 141)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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