[4] Finished drawing for the drawing room, c1767, as executed

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  - The Great House, Low Leyton, Essex: designs for remodelling the principal rooms, for Thomas Oliver, c1767 (6)
    - Finished drawing for the drawing room, c1767, as executed (1)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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