[35] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, c1779, 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)
      - Designs for ornamental panels, possibly for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/227

Purpose

[35] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an ornamental panel as Adam volume 24/275, with minor alterations and varied colored washes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, pink, cerulean blue and black on laid paper (168 x 492)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, with detail of a tripod in relief ornamented with ram masks and with an apron of swags and surmounted by an urn. Above this there is a tablet containing a cameo flanked by festoons, this is surmounted by a figurative roundel. Above this a tubular flower from which suspends calyx, ribbons and peltoid shields

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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