[56] Record drawing for friezes for the first drawing room, second drawing room, Lady Bathurst's dressing room, bed chamber and Etruscan dressing room, N.D., as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Record drawings for friezes for the hall, great parlour, library, dining room, first drawing room, second drawing room, Lady Bathurst's dressing room, bedchamber and Etruscan dressing room, N.D., as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/10

Purpose

[56] Record drawing for friezes for the first drawing room, second drawing room, Lady Bathurst's dressing room, bed chamber and Etruscan dressing room, N.D., as executed

Aspect

First drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with a satyr mask, and arabesques which suspend anthemia and festoons of calyx Second drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with arabesques and tubular flowers, which support a platform, bearing a socle and wreath, and an apron with a rosette and festoons. This is flanked by heraldic stags (the Bathurst armorial supporters), with swags set behind. All this alternates with calyx and arabesques, which are surmounted by husks and a tubular flower bearing an anthemion, flanked by winged sphinxes Lady’s dressing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with cameos depicting urns, alternating with cameos depicting winged putti, each enclosed within an oval band of beading. These are separated by longitudinal bands of rosettes and calyx Bedchamber – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with interlacing circles of beading. These alternately enclose rosettes, arabesques and fans, rosettes, calyx and arabesques. The overlaps enclose paterae, and are flanked by calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

First Drawing room one pair / Second Drawing room / Lady’s Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Circular Dressing room

Signed and dated

ND
no date

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (289 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 43, 44
King, 2001, 282
Bradley and Pevsner, 2003, pp. 486-487
Lea, 2005, pp.10, 14-15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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