[74] Finished 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 14/128

Purpose

[74] Finished drawing for the walls of the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of the south (window) wall, with two windows, surmounted by curtain cornices ornamented with enclosed anthemia, urns and sphinxes, and with a rectangular pier glass, ornamented with a frame of guilloche, and surmounted by a figurative medallion, festoons, anthemia, urns, figures, and a basket, and the wall is ornamented with a frieze of urns, and drops composed of urns and anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Etruscan room at Osterley

Signed and dated

1775
datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including black and yellow ochre on laid paper (419 x 312)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 76
Harris, 2001, p. 173
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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