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Drawing room - Elevation of a frieze ornamented with paired satyrs supporting festoons and an urn alternating with draped figures supporting festoons and an urn. These are flanked by baskets surmounted by calyx, tubular flowers and anthemia and are linked by semi-circular bands of vine leaves
Drawing room screen - Elevation of a frieze ornamented with paired satyrs supporting festoons and urns surmounted by an anthemion. This is alternated with suspended urns with an apron of tubular flowers and festoons, and these are flanked by baskets linked by semi-circular bands of vine leaves
Circular anti room - Elevation of a frieze ornamented with supports bearing urns. The supports contain a central portrait cameo and the urns are ornamented with ram masks and festoons. All are linked with festoons of calyx
Lady's dressing room - Elevation of a frieze ornamented with rosettes enclosed within a roundel of foil alternating with arabesques surmounted by rosettes and anthemia, with a central band of calyx and festoons of beading
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Hand
James Adam
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Literature
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 52, 67-8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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