[77] Record drawing for the walls of the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Finished drawings and record drawings for the walls of the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, as executed (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/72

Purpose

[77] Record drawing for the walls of the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the north (door) wall, with a central door, with a console architrave ornamented with anthemia, and enclosed anthemia, and the wall is ornamented as Adam volume 14/128, 14/130 and 27/73

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

October 1775
Adelphi Octr 11t 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue and yellow ochre on laid paper (511 x 358)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, pp. 76, 81
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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