[26] Preliminary designs for door panels for a drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Preliminary designs and design for panels for the doors in the drawing room, c1779, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/7

Purpose

[26] Preliminary designs for door panels for a drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

To the left- Elevation of a panel ornamented with a curule table with an apron of swags, and surmounted by an urn flanked by winged sphinxes. Above this there is a cameo enclosed within a wreath of olive branches, and surmounted by a turned support bearing a further urn, flanked by swags and surmounted by an anthemion To the right- Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central roundel depicting putti, and with an apron of arabesques, drop calyx, tubular flowers, and a pendent oil lamp. Above the roundel, there is a turned support, which is flanked by mermaids and terminates in a tubular flower. This bears an urn ornamented with gadrooning, bands of lozenges and guilloche, ram masks, and festoons, all surmounted by calyx and flora

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lower Pannel of Doors in Sr A Humes Drawing room / Middle panel of Doors in Sr A Humes Drawing room

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (509 x 670)

Hand

Possibly
Robert Adam

Watermark

V within a cartouche and a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1917, p. 6
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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