[9] Record drawing for a frieze for the first drawing room, ND, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Conduit Street, London, (unknown number), designs for a house, offices, and a garden porch, for Sir John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, possibly executed, c1786 (11)
      - Record drawings for friezes for the first and second drawing rooms, ND, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/43 (part)

Purpose

[9] Record drawing for a frieze for the first drawing room, ND, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the first drawing room, ornamented with rosettes set within roundels, linked with festoons of husks and ribbons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Lord Delaval / 1st Drawing room (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (290 x 470)

Hand

Possibly
Possibly James Adam

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 423
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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