[22] Design for the top 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 24/277

Purpose

[22] Design for the top panel for shutters for the second drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central mask enclosed within a band of beading, all set within an octagonal compartment. This is flanked by thyrsi, and is surmounted by a tripod with paw feet and a central turned support, which bears an urn ornamented with gadrooning. The tripod is flanked by putti bearing festoons of husks. The octagonal compartment has an apron of arabesques, drop calyx and festoons of beading which suspend an oil lamp

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Top panel of Shutters for the second room at Sir A: Hume’s in Hill Street / 56

Signed and dated

Dec 1778
12 Dec.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (242 x 414)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1917, p. 6
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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