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  • image SM Adam volume 17/106

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/106

Purpose

[66] Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the state bedchamber, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Part elevation, with a band of unlobed acanthus leaves, an apron ornamented with poppies, arabesques, calyx, and festoons, and surmounted by crockets in the form of single poppy buds, and a tubular flower

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the Bed Chamber at Osterly / this apron 22 times (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • October 1776
    Adelphi / October 18th 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and terre verte wash on laid paper (406 x 259)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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