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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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