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  • image SM Adam volume 49/25

Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/25

Purpose

[57] Finished drawing for the boudoir, 1780-81, unexecuted

Aspect

Section of two curving walls for a circular room, with four apses containing mirrors ornamented with terms, sofas, and lozenge-shaped coffering in the semi-domes. One wall has a central window surmounted by a curtain cornice, and flanked by doors surmounted by lions and unicorns. The opposite wall is identical save for an additional door instead of a window, above which is a large rectangular figurative panel. The whole has a frieze of enclosed anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Boudoir in Cumberland House Pallmall

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1785
    date range: 1780-1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including verdigris and Indian yellow on laid paper (470 x 605)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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