[24] Design for the upper door panels for the second drawing room, 1778, as 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 the door panels for the second drawing room, 1778, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/279

Purpose

[24] Design for the upper door panels for the second drawing room, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented by paired half-putti with arabesques which support anthemia and tubular flowers. The putti flank a central turned support surmounted by an urn ornamented with gadrooning, beading and festoons of husks. This is surmounted by a figurative roundel flanked by swans, with a tubular flower above. This supports a further urn ornamented with gadrooning, an anthemion, and ram masks, and flanked by festoons of husks. The festoons suspend beading, lozenges enclosing rosettes, drop calyx and pendant urns

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Upper long Pannell of Doors in second room at Sir Abraham Hume’s in Hill Street (underwritten in pencil) / 59 and faint pencil inscription

Signed and dated

Dec 1778
Adelphi / 7. Dec.r 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including lemon yellow, verdigris and Naples yellow on laid paper (320 x 587)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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