Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [93] Finished drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776-77

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 17/143

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/143

Purpose

[93] Finished drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776-77

Aspect

Elevation of a detail of a fire screen containing a central urn ornamented with a cameo, fluting, Vitruvian scroll, and ram masks, arabesques of calyx, an anthemion supported by a tubular flower, rosettes, festoons, and the whole enclosed by a wreath of flowers

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Part of firescreen for Mrs Child

Signed and dated

  • 1776-1777
    datable to 1776-77

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, black and cerulean blue on laid paper (295 x 347)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 296; Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 103
Tomlin, 1972, p. 81
Harris, 2001, p. 352
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk