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[4] Finished drawing for the drawing room, c1767, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 50/78
Purpose
[4] Finished drawing for the drawing room, c1767, as executed
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with three windows in one wall, with a chimneypiece with Ionic columns, and a frieze of festoons on one side wall, and two doors on the wall opposite, and the room has a frieze of urns, rinceaux, and anthemia, and with a pencil-drawn annotation showing the arrangement for the ceiling design, with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan, and a circular frame of Vitruvian sroll, encircled by rinceaux anthemia, festoons, and drops of calyx, within an oval fluted frame, and with a medallion in each corner
Scale
to a scale 2/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Section of a Drawing Room for / Thos Oliver Esqr at Leyton Essex (all in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- c1767
datable to c1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (929 x 653)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with drawn pencil annotations in the hand of Robert Adam, and with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Verso
4 / Mr Oliver / Layton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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