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  • image SM Adam volume 24/272

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/272

Purpose

[25] Design for a panel for the second drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with central cameo depicting putti, with an apron consisting of a mask and festoons of beading. Above the cameo there are arabesques, rosettes, and an anthemion, and this is flanked by ribbons and festoons of husks, which suspend tubular flowers and pendent oil lamps

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Top Pannell / For the second room at Sir Abrahma Hume’s in Hill Street / 51

Signed and dated

  • Dec 1778
    Adelphi / 7. Dec.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including lemon yellow and Indian yellow on laid paper (339 x 202)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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