[28] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Designs for ornamental panels, possibly for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/267

Purpose

[28] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central figurative roundel enclosed within an octagonal compartment flanked by crossed thyrsi. Above this there is a wreath enclosing calyx and a tubular flower surmounted by a draped figure, arabesques and a further tubular flower bearing a swan. The roundel has an apron of arabesques, figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing drop calyx, and tubular flowers. Below this there is a suspended tablet, ornamented with a central patera set within a lozenge flanked by pilasters enclosing fauna, all surmounted by putti, and with an apron of ox skulls, beading and a pendent urn

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / 46

Signed and dated

Feb 1779
12 Feby 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pick, black, Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (185 x 801)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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