[21] Design for the bottom panel for shutters for the second drawing room, 1778, 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)
      - Design for panels for the window shutters for the second drawing room, 1778, possibly executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/276

Purpose

[21] Design for the bottom panel for shutters for the second drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a tablet containing an urn flanked by winged sphinxes, surmounted by a pedestal, which is ornamented with a rosette and swags and bears a turned baluster and urn. The urn is ornamented with gadrooning and festoons of drop calyx, and is surmounted by an anthemion. The tablet has an apron consisting of guttae, an ox skull, festoons of beading with pendent rosettes, festoons, a wreath of husks enclosing drop calyx and a further rosette, and a pendent oil lamp

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Bottom of Shutters for the Second Room at Sir Abraham Hume’s in Hill Street / 55

Signed and dated

Dec 1778
12 Dec.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (309 x 412)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1917, p. 6
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41

Level

Drawing

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