[56] Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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)
      - Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/24

Purpose

[56] Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the ante room with rosettes, swags and husks, the drawing room with anthemia, arabesques, a griffon and a vase, the first for the dressing room with urns, swags, weaponry, rosettes, peltoid shields and fleur-de-lis crossed by two swords, and the second for the dressing room with alternating squares of key meander and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl of Coventry / Anti room / Drawing room / Octagon room / Octagon room between Capitals

Signed and dated

N.D.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil drawn directly onto the volume page of laid paper (294 x 471)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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