[34] 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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    - 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 24/275

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a tablet containing an 'Etruscan' cameo, this is flanked by pedestals supporting urns, and surmounted by an 'Etruscan' urn, ornamented with Vitruvian scroll and flanked by winged sphinxes. Above this there are tubular flowers, arabesques and an anthemion. The tablet has an apron of an ox mask festoons of beading suspending ornamental crosses, and an 'Etruscan' cameo enclosed within a band of beading. Below this there is a pendent oil lamp with an apron of calyx, arabesques and an anthemion

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / 54

Signed and dated

Feb 1779
12. Febry 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including black, pink, Indian yellow and verdigris on laid paper (183 x 535)

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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