[27] Design for a door panel for a drawing room, 1779, 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 24/265

Purpose

[27] Design for a door panel for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented by a central roundel depicting winged putti, with an apron of arabesques, drop calyx, tubular flowers and a pendent oil lamp ornamented with gadrooning and anthemia. Above the roundel, there is a turned support, flanked by mermaids and terminating 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

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / 44

Signed and dated

Feb 1779
12 Feby. 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, verdigris, cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (200 x 605)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

Banded cartouche surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1917, p. 6
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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