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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/17

Purpose

[6] Working drawing for the frieze for the great dining room, presumed to have been executed, 29 August 1780

Aspect

Full size elevation of a detail of a frieze, composed of winged sphinxes, flanking an urn on a pedestal, anthemia, calyx, and flowers
  • image SM Adam volume 49/17

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Frieze for the Great Dining room at Cumberland House / Pall Mall (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • August 1780
    Adelphi 29t August 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre and black on laid paper (301 x 710)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, pp. 78, 82
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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