[29] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

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    - 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 24/268

Purpose

[29] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central roundel depicting a winged griffin, enclosed within a band of beading, and flanked by calyx. This is surmounted by arabesques, a tubular flower, and calyx supporting an urn ornamented with strigilation and a rosette. Above this there is a further tubular flower and a wreath enclosing calyx, and this is surmounted by a draped figure bearing an urn. The central roundel has an apron of festoons suspending rosettes, arabesques and a pendent oil lamp ornamented with gadrooning and an anthemion. Below this, drop calyx suspends figure-of-eight husks enclosing rosettes, and there is a peltoid shield superimposed upon crossed thyrsi with an apron of beading and further rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow, verdigris, pink, violet and cerulean blue on laid paper (162 x 802)

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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