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[13] Record drawing for friezes for the dining room, drawing room and door, as executed, and record drawing for an alternative frieze for the dining room, unexecuted, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 53/41 (part)
Purpose
[13] Record drawing for friezes for the dining room, drawing room and door, as executed, and record drawing for an alternative frieze for the dining room, unexecuted, ND
Aspect
Dining room – Elevation of a frieze, ornamented with urns crossed with knives, set within roundels, and enclosed within beaded lozenges. Between the lozenges there are vertical bands of rosettes, anthemia and shells
Drawing room – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with putti riding sea creatures, alternating with waves and fountains
Door frieze – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with a scroll supporting tridents, and with waves and fountains
Dining room, not executed – Elevation of a frieze ornamented with figurative cameos, alternating with arabesques and anthemia, and with a central band of calyx and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Dining room / Drawing room / Door frize (sic) / Dining room not executed / (underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- ND
ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (290 x 470)
Hand
Possibly
James Adam
James Adam
Watermark
LVG surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Miele, 1998, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Miele, 1998, p. 164
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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