[55] Record drawing for friezes for the hall, great parlour, library and dining 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 53/09

Purpose

[55] Record drawing for friezes for the hall, great parlour, library and dining room, N.D., as executed

Aspect

Hall – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with alternating ram masks and ox skulls, which flank rosettes enclosed within foils Great parlour – Elevation of a frieze of arabesques bearing tubular flowers, which alternatively support urns and anthemia Library – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with bust medallions, each linked by swags and ribbons Dining room - Elevation of a frieze ornamented with a rosette enclosed within a wreath surrounded by thyrsi, and surmounted by a tablet and half putto bearing a lekythos and tazza. This is flanked by lekythoi ornamented with patera and calyx, which in turn are flanked by husks supporting arabesques, surmounted by a tablet bearing a tazza

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl Bathurst / Halls / Great Parlor / Library / Dining room

Signed and dated

N.D.
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
Lea, 2005, p.10, 14-15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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