[57] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Preliminary designs for ornamental panels, panels for window shutters and a door, c1775, possibly executed (14)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/5

Purpose

[57] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an ornamental panel with a tablet containing a cameo flanked by urns. This is surmounted by an urn flanked by winged sphinxes, with tubular flowers and arabesques above. The tablet has an apron of ox skull, beading and pendent crosses. Below this there is a cameo enclosed within beading and a suspended oil lamp with an apron of arabesques and an anthemion

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (173 x 500)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

cartouche (cropped)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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