[27] Finished drawing for the east wall of the music room, 1775, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Finished drawings for the music room, 1775, as executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/35

Purpose

[27] Finished drawing for the east wall of the music room, 1775, as executed

Aspect

Elevation and section of the music room with a pair of doors set within a relieving arch. The doors are flanked with pilasters as SM Adam volume 50/34, and the overdoors are ornamented with lyre, half-putti and arabesques. Above this there are friezes as SM Adam volume 50/34 and the semi-circular arch head is ornamented with mermaids bearing trumpets and a medallion, flanked by urns and winged sphinxes, all linked by festoons of husks

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 5 feet

Inscribed

Section of one end of the Music Room or Front Drawing Room at Lady Homes

Signed and dated

Jan 1775
Adelphi Janry 27t 1775 (cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (588 x 441)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Verso

Section of a Musick room for Lady Home / 3

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 18-20, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 44, 63
King, 2001, Volume I, pp.27, 290-91, fig. 409-10, pl. XIV
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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