[1] Finished drawing for the design of a room, 1766

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grove House, Kensington Gore, London: designs for alterations to the house, for Anne Pitt, 1766-70 (5)
      - Finished drawing for the design of a room, 1766 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/39

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for the design of a room, 1766

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevation of a room with a tripartite window on two opposite walls, a chimneypiece with console stiles on a side wall between the windows, and two doors on the wall opposite. The chimneypiece, door frames and frieze are all ornamented with calyx and arabesques, and the deep cove of the ceiling is ornamented with swags, husks and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Four Sides of a Room for Mrs Ann Pitt at Her House at Kensington Gore (verso) Mrs Ann Pitt

Signed and dated

1766
Robt Adam Architect 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (627 x 729)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Watermark

D&C BLAUW and XD&CB within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Survey of London, Volume 38, 1975, p. 12
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 180
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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