[91] Preliminary design for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776

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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
      - Alternative preliminary design, finished drawings and record drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776-77 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/36

Purpose

[91] Preliminary design for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular fire screen, with a central urn containing flowers, enclosed by a wreath, and within a border of beading, and lozenges enclosing rosettes

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Firescreen for Mrs Child

Signed and dated

December 1776
datable to December 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (563 x 560)

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Rough alternate design for a fire screen, ornamented with fans, festoons, urns, tubular flowers, a circular pedestal ornamented with ram masks, drops, and a roundel

Watermark

PVL

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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