[58] Record drawings for friezes for the great dining room, as executed, and for a drawing room, unexecuted, N.D.

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
      - Designs for the interior decoration, including the great dining room, music room, eating room, drawing rooms and boudoir (59)
        Record drawings for friezes for the great dining room, as executed, and for a drawing room, unexecuted, N.D (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/46

Purpose

[58] Record drawings for friezes for the great dining room, as executed, and for a drawing room, unexecuted, N.D.

Aspect

Elevation of details of friezes, one for the great dining room, in the Etruscan style, ornamented with anthemia, and sphinxes either side of an urn on a pedestal, and the other for the drawing room, which is composed of roundels containing ferns, Tudor roses, and a lion and a unicorn

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Duke of Cumberland / Great Dining Room / Drawing Room

Signed and dated

N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil drawn directly on to the volume page of laid paper (470 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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