[54] Unfinished preliminary design for a moulding, c1764-70

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Unfinished preliminary design for a moulding, c1764-70 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 7/131

Purpose

[54] Unfinished preliminary design for a moulding, c1764-70

Aspect

Rough elevation of a detail of a portion of moulding, composed of bands of unlobed acanthus leaves, anthemia, strigils, fluting, serpentine ribbons wound around naturalistic anthemia, and spiral acanthus leaves. Although it is unclear, this is possibly a picture frame, door architrave, or a moulding for a ceiling or chimneypiece

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ld Coventry

Signed and dated

1764-1770
date range: 1764-70

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and wash on laid paper (357 x 250)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Frameworks: Form, Function and Ornament in European Portrait Frames from the 16th to 20th Centuries, Paul Mitchell Ltd, London, 8 November 1996 - 8 February 1997

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