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[90] Finished drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/141
Purpose
[90] Finished drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular fire screen ornamented with an eagle holding a snake in its beak, within an oval medallion of laurel leaves, supported by a pedestal ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, a festoon, an enclosed rosette, anthemia, and ram heads, and supporting a basket. To either side - and attached to the pedestal by a festoon - in an urn supporting a drop of calyx, arabesques, anthemion, tubular flowers, a tablet containing a putti and bird, winged griffons, a further urn, tubular flowers and anthemia. There is a border of enclosed rosettes, and enclosed fans
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Fire Screen for Mrs Child
Signed and dated
- November 1776
Adelphi 13t Novr 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, black and cerulean blue on laid paper (460 x 515)
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
Beard, 1978, p. 58
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 103
Tomlin, 1972, p. 81
Beard, 1978, p. 58
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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